It is a small, upright shrub with prickly, green leaves and blue-purple pea flowers.

Hovea chorizemifolia is an erect, slender and prickly shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.6 metres (0 to 2 ft), and needle-shaped, hairy stems.

[2][3] Hovea chorizemifolia was first formally described by the botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, in 1825 in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.

[4][5] The classification of the species has been revised many times including by Robert Sweet in 1827 as Plagiolobium chorizemifolium in Flora Australasica[6] and as Hovea chorozemaefolia by John Lindley in 1832 in Edwards's Botanical Register.

[8][9] It occurs on hills, breakaways and granite outcrops in the South West, Peel and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy and gravelly lateritic soils[2] and often as part of jarrah forest communities.