Common name: Liquorice
Glycyrrhiza glabra L. APNI* 
Description: Erect scabrous to pubescent herb to 1 m high; stems sometimes branched.
Leaves 8–19 cm long; leaflets 5–17, elliptic to oblong, 15–40 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate, gland-dotted; stipules 1–2 mm long.
Racemes mostly shorter than the leaves; peduncles 3.5–10 cm long; bracts lanceolate, 2–3 mm long. Calyx to 6 mm long, teeth longer than tube. Corolla blue-violet to whitish, 10–13 mm long; standard oblanceolate; wings oblong; keel ± semicircular, acuminate.
Pod linear-oblong, 10–20 mm long, red-brown; seeds reniform to ± globose, c. 2 mm long, dark brown.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized in Wagga district, not common. Native of Medit. region where it is cultivated as a source of liquorice.
NSW subdivisions: *SWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A.
Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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