Glycine rubiginosa Tindale & B.E.Pfeil

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, 12-20 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ). Pedicel 2-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 3-3.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6.5-8 mm long, uniformly coloured, purple; claws absent; standard 6-7.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-5.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 3.5-3.7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 25-30 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Murchison, Nullarbor and Mallee IBRA regions.