Hovea nitida, commonly known as purple bush pea or long-leaved hovea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub covered with brown, coiled hairs, very narrowly elliptic to strap-shaped leaves, mauve flowers and a sessile pod.
Hovea nitida is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and is covered with brown to grey-brown, coiled hairs. The leaves are very narrowly elliptic or strap-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. There are stipules long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are usually sessile and arranged in pairs, each flower on a pedicel long, with a bracts and bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base, forming a tube long, the upper lip about wide. The petals are mauve, the standard petal long with a central greenish yellow "flare", the wings wide. Flowering occurs in August and September and the pods are sessile and sparsely hairy, the seed with an aril long.
Hovea nitida was first formally described in 2001 by Ian R. Thompson in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in the Chilverton area, between Atherton and Ravenshoe by Donald Bruce Foreman in 1987. The specific epithet (nitida) means 'shining' or 'bright'.
This species of pea grows in rocky sites, often near streams near rainforest or in forest.
Hovea nitida is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.