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Glycine tabacina

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Labillardière) Bentham

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Victoria
• Western Australia - Australia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Taiwan - China
• Fiji
• Japan
• New Caledonia
• Tonga

Natural Habitats

• Rocky pasture ot clearings
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Mar-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• May-Oct (China)

Perennial twining or procumbent slender hairy herb with strigose stems. Trifoliolate leaves, strigose leaflets leaflets to 15mm x 14mm, upper leaflets to 50mm x 7mm. Solitary or axillary racemes to 80mm long of 4-23 flowers & bractlets to 2mm long. 9mm purple to mauve flowers to 15mm diameter, strigose calyx to 4.5mm long, blue to violet or purplish corolla. Glabrous or villous pod to 30mm long x 3.5mm.

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FV
• ILDIS
• Hermann