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Glycine tomentella

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Hayata

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, forage

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Northern Territories - Australia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Taiwan - China
• New Guinea
• New Caledonia
• Philippines
• Pacific Is.

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• open forest or grassland
• riverside
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (China)
• Nov-Mar (Australia

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (China)

Annual robust herbaceous hairy twiner or trailer with tomentose stems. Trifoliolate leaves with mucronate tomentose leaflets to 65mm x 35mm. Axillary 70mm racemes of 7-15 flowers, hirsute bractlets to 2mm long. 10mm reddish to purple flowers, hirsute calyx to 6mm long. Hirsute to glabrate pod to 23mm long x 5mm.

Further References

• FOC
• Jones & Gray 1977
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• Hermann