Glycine microphylla

Scrambling herb; stems elongated, sometimes stoloniferous, twining, hirsute to glabrous. Leaves dimorphic, adult weakly pinnately trifoliolate, first-formed leaves usually palmately trifoliolate, petiole 0.7–5 cm long; leaflets of upper leaves narrow-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5–5 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, apices mostly acute; leaflets of lower leaves obovate to elliptic, 0.5–5 cm long, 2–9 mm wide, apices acute or obtuse; upper surface sparsely strigose to glabrous; lower surface more densely strigose; stipules lanceolate to ovate; at least the central leaflet subtended by a pair of minute stipels (but these deciduous), central petiolule usually conspicuously less hairy below than above stipels; leaflet reticulation obvious with secondary and tertiary veins usually apparent (moreso on the undersurface) - the finer tertiary veins forming a distinct network within the areoles formed by the secondary veins. Racemes 5–13-flowered; peduncles mostly 2–4 cm long. Flowers on pedicels 1–2.3 mm long, more crowded towards apex of rachis; bract linear, 1–2 mm long; calyx 3–5.3 mm long, sparsely hairy to glabrous, lower 3 teeth shorter than the tube; petals white, pink or purplish; standard 5–7 mm long; keel shorter than wings. Pod more or less linear, 1.5–3 cm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, compressed, sparsely strigose; seeds 3–7, ovoid to suborbicular, 1.5–2.2 mm long, smooth and shining or minutely muricate, black, brown or grey. Flowers mostly Oct.–Apr.