Glycine tomentella Hayata
Woolly Glycine

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 15-100 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ), 3-4 mm long, without glands, ribbed. Pedicel present or absent (flowers sessile), 0.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2.6-3 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 5-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-7 mm long, multicoloured, mostly purple or blue, with some purple or blue spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 6-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-5.6 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 3-4.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 3.7-4 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, flattened at apex. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in February, March, April, May, June and July. Occurs in the Northern and Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara, Gascoyne, Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte, Central Kimberley, Ord-Victorian-Plain and Dampierland IBRA regions.