Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Glycine clandestina
Common name
Twining glycine
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wide variety of habitats, including forest, woodland, grassy areas, and roadsides. Widespread.
Notes
Twining perennial herb to 1.5 m tall. Stems touching the ground do not form roots. Stems with white, grey, or rusty hairs, or hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.5-8 cm long, 1-10 mm wide, leaflets of the upper leaves linear to more or less narrow, 1–8 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, tips blunt or pointed; leaflets of the lower leaves (and often in subalpine plants) wider, to more or less round, 0.5–3.0 cm long, 2–8 mm wide. upper surface of leaflets sparsely hairy to more or less hairless; lower surface with appressed or spreading hairs. Small leaf veins not very noticeable, small stipules absent at the base of the stalks of the middle leaflets. Standard petal 5-10 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, pale mauve to purple or white, in clusters of 4-18 flowers. Flowers all year.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glycine~clandestina (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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