Glycine clandestina
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| Twining glycine | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Glycine |
| Subgenus: | Glycine subg. Glycine |
| Species: | G. clandestina |
| Binomial name | |
| Glycine clandestina | |
Glycine clandestina commonly known as twining glycine,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It has green leaves with three leaflets, mauve pea flowers and grows in Tasmania and eastern states of Australia.
Glycine clandestina is a slender, twining climber, stems up to 50 cm (20 in) long covered in soft hairs, winding over grasses and taller shrubs. Leaves consist of three, variable sized, linear-shaped leaflets, 12–50 mm (0.47–1.97 in) long, 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) wide and occasional appressed hairs, apex rounded or pointed. Flowers are borne in leaf axils on long stalks, mauve, pale blue or pink, pea-shaped, petals to 1 cm (0.39 in) long. Flowering may occur anytime of the year and fruit is an oblong, straight, flattened pod with short hairs, up to 4 cm (1.6 in) long and 2.5–4 mm (0.098–0.157 in) wide containing 4-12 seeds.[3][4][5]