Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Glycine canescens

Common name

Silky glycine

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Variety of habitats including dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and along streams.Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Trailing or twining perennial herb. Stems silky to rough hairy, the hairs grey, often intermixed with rusty hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 1-8 cm long, 2-12 mm wide, threadlike to flat, or folded lengthwise, surfaces grey-silky and bristly, tips pointed or blunt. Standard petal 6-9 mm long. Flowers reddish or pinkish purple to mauve, fading to bluish, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together, in elongated clusters of 6-12 flowers. Flowers all year, especially July–Nov.

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glycine~canescens (accessed 18 January, 2021)