Common name: Woolly Glycine
Glycine tomentella Hayata APNI* 
Description: Twiner, stems non-stoloniferous, hairy with soft, fawn or golden-brown hairs.
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, scarcely or not dimorphic; leaflets oblong, elliptic or ovate, 1.0–6.5 cm long, 4–35 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded or emarginate; velvety to tomentose or strigose, with fawn or golden-brown hairs; stipels present on terminal petiolule.
Racemes 7–15-flowered, 1–3 times as long as leaves. Calyx villous or hirsute with golden-brown or fawn hairs; 3 lower sepals mostly longer than tube. Standard 5–10 mm long, mostly red-purplish.
Pod straight, 1.2–2.3 cm long, 1.9–3.5 mm wide, without purple flecks, villous or hirsute; seeds 2–10.
Flowering: November–March.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in a variety of habitats, from woodland to littoral rainforest, riverine floodplains or inland spinifex communities.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS, CWS, NWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by B.E. Pfeil & M.D. Tindale
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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