Hovea ramulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an upright shrub with narrowly linear to linear leaves, mauve flowers and more or less round pods.
Hovea ramulosa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to high with slender stems and many parts densely covered with spreading, coiled greyish hairs. The leaves are narrowly linear to linear, long and wide, strongly arched each side of a moderately recessed midrib, with the edges rolled under. The leaf upper surface of the leaves is dull green and , the lower surface mostly obscured by curled orange-brown and grey-white hairs. The flowers are usually borne in sessile pairs, with narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped bracts long above the base of the pedicel and lance-shaped bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long and form a tube long. The standard petal is mauve, about long and wide, with a yellow centre, the wings long and wide, and the keel long and wide. Flowering occurs from July to August, and the fruit is a more or less round pod, about long and wide with an elliptic, mottled red-brown seed with an oblong aril long and wide.
Hovea ramulosa was first formally described in 1843 by John Lindley in Sydenham Edwards Edwards's Botanical Register from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham of specimens he collected "along the upper branches of the Brisbane River in Moreton Bay, in the year 1829". The specific epithet (ramulosa) means "bearing branchlets".
This species of hovea grows in sandy soils derived from sandstone and is found in woodland from Helidon and Beenleigh in far south-eastern Queensland to near Copmanhurst and Grafton in New South Wales.
Hovea ramulosa is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.