It is a small shrub with mauve flowers, dark green leaves and rusty coloured new growth.

Hovea pedunculata is a shrub that grows up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) high with branchlets covered in brown-grey hairs.

The leaves are narrowly elliptic or slightly oblong to lance-shaped, usually 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in) long, 6–12 mm (0.24–0.47 in) wide, flat, slightly curved either side of the midrib, margins usually curved under, upper surface smooth, distinctly veined.

[2] Hovea pedunculata was first formally described in 2001 by Ian R. Thompson and James Henderson Ross and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.

[4] This hovea grows in dry forests or woodland usually on granite in the Gibraltar Range, near Wauchope and in Queensland.