Variable Glycine
Glycine tabacina
A low spreading plant with long, slender stems, usually creeping or trailing up to 1.5 m. Leaves consist of three clover-like pale green leaflets. Clusters of 4-12 blue to purple pea-like flowers.
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Distinctive Features |
Leaves consist of three clover-like leafletswith the end leaflet larger than the two side leaflets. Leaf has a distinct vein at an acute angle to the mid-vein.
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Biology |
The stems grow from a woody, thick root-stock on heavy soils in woodlands. Rhizobium bacteria live in this legume's root nodules and allow the plant to fix nitrogen from the air. Threatened in South Australia.
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A low spreading plant with long, slender stems, usually creeping or trailing up to 1.5 m. Leaves consist of three clover-like pale green leaflets. Clusters of 4-12 blue to purple pea-like flowers.
Details |
Flora Type |
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Distinctive Features |
Leaves consist of three clover-like leafletswith the end leaflet larger than the two side leaflets. Leaf has a distinct vein at an acute angle to the mid-vein.
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Biology |
The stems grow from a woody, thick root-stock on heavy soils in woodlands. Rhizobium bacteria live in this legume's root nodules and allow the plant to fix nitrogen from the air. Threatened in South Australia.
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Taxonomy |
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Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants) |
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Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants) |
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Aborigines roasted and chewed the liquorice-flavoured taproot. Seed locally dispersed by ants. Hard-coated seed is long-lived (5-25 yrs) and germinates readily once scarified.
Interesting Facts |
Similar Species |
G. tabacina and G. clandestina look similar but the length of the leaflet stalks differs. In G. tabacina the middle leaflet has a longer stalk than the two either side. In G. clandestina, all three leaflet stalks are about the same length.
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