Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Glycine latifolia

Common name

None

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland and grassland. Western Slopes. One record from Wallacia, outer Sydney. Mostly north of the area covered by this key.

Notes

Perennial scrambler. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 2–5.8 cm long, 10–33 mm wide, tips more or less rounded to more or less pointed, both surfaces more or less silky. Standard petal 6.5–10 mm long, Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, mauve to more or less red-purple, in clusters of 4-18 flowers. Flowering: Oct.–Apr.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glycine~latifolia  (accessed 22 January, 2021)