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Glycine pindanica Tindale & Craven

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 6:371-374,Fig.1 (1993)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate or scrambling perennial, herb or climber. Fl. pink/blue-purple, Feb to Mar or Jun. Pindan soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 June 1996
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Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 40-120 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, palmately arranged; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ), 5-6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2-2.3 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 4-5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5-6 mm long, multicoloured, mostly pink, purple or blue, with some pink, purple or blue spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 5-5.2 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-4.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4-4.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 2-3.7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 3.2-4 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-23 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in February, March and June. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Dampierland IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Dampierland.
IBRA Subregions
Pindanland.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broome.