Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Glycine tomentella

Flowers and leaf. Photographer Ken Harris, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve via Augathella, Qld

Common name

Woolly glycine

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, and moist places. Coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Twining or trailing perennial herb. Stems with fawn or golden-brown hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 1-6.5 cm long, 4-35 mm wide, tips blunt to rounded or notched; surfaces velvety to tomentose or bristly, with fawn or golden-brown hairs. Standard petal 5-10 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, pink to reddish purple, in clusters of 7-15 flowers. Flowers Spring to Autumn.

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