Hovea linearis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

Hovea linearis is an erect or trailing subshrub that sometimes grows to a height of up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in), its branchlets covered with brown and silvery or grey hairs.

Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is a glabrous pod 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long and wide.

[5] This species was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith, who gave it the name Poiretia linearis in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.

[8] Hovea linearis grows in forest and woodland, mainly between Newcastle and Nowra in eastern New South Wales, but it is also known from the Blackdown Tableland in south-eastern Queensland.