Glycine

Neonotonia wightii

Glycine

DESCRIPTION

Climbing plant with scrambling stems to 4.5m long; stems, leaves and fruit can vary from almost hairless to densely covered in rusty velvet hairs. Alternate compound leaves 3-16cm long with three oval leaflets 1-10cm long by 0.6-7cm wide; margins entire, pointed tips. Petioles 2-12cm long.

FLOWERS AND FRUIT

Small white to mauve pea-shaped flowers 1cm long (may have yellowish or purplish markings) in elongated clusters 2-18cm long; peduncles 2-10cm long. Rusty hairy elongated flattened pods 1.5-3.5cm long mature from green to dark brown/ black and contain 4-9 dark reddish-brown or black kidney-shaped seeds 2.5-4mm long by 1.5-3mm wide.

HABITAT AND RANGE

Riparian areas, urban bushland, rainforest margins, gardens and disturbed sites from Bellingen, New South Wales, to the wet tropics.