Glycine albicans Tindale & Craven

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 75-85 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ), 5-8 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2.3-3 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 4-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-8 mm long, multicoloured, white, mostly brown or purple, with some brown or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 6.5-7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 4.5-5.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6-7 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-25 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in February, March and April. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).