Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Glycine latrobeana
Common name
Clover glycine
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, grassy woodland, heath, and grassland. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb, erect to sprawling, to only a few cm high. Stems hairy to bristly. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets. Mature leaflets oval to more or less round, 0.5–2 cm long, 4–12 mm wide, immature leaflets often elliptic. Leaflets thin, tips blunt to rounded with a small notch; upper surface hairless; lower surface silky and bristly. Flowers usually deep purple, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 8–9 mm long. Calyx rusty-bristly. Flowers in 3–8-flowered elongated clusters. Flowers Spring-Summer.
Vulnerable Australia. Critically endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20256 (accessed 1 May 2021)
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/9f2c1e0c-5b3e-496b-b0dc-91d158240534 (accessed 1 May 2021)
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