Glycine tabacina (Labill.) Benth. APNI* 
Description: Scrambler with stoloniferous stems; retrorsely strigose to ± glabrous.
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, rachis usually 2–5 mm long; leaflets ± lanceolate to broad-ovate, to 7 cm long and 20 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse; upper surface ± glabrous, lower surface ± strigose; stipels on rachis.
Racemes to c. 14 cm long. Calyx sparsely hairy with white hairs; sinus between upper teeth 0.25–0.5 mm long. Standard 5–10 mm long, blue to purple or mauve.
Pods initially straight, usually twisting after dehiscence, 1.4–3 cm long, 3–4.5 mm wide, without purple flecks, sparsely hairy; seeds 2–6; surface rough, not mottled. Tetraploid, 2n=80.
Flowering: Flowers mainly spring–autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Common amongst grasses in open situations, also in woodland.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A.
Text by B.E. Pfeil & M.D. Tindale
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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