Glycine latrobeana

Decumbent or ascending herb; stems short, non-stoloniferous, hirsute to strigose. Leaves palmately trifoliolate, dimorphic, petiole 0.5–5 cm long; leaflets sessile to subsessile; those of mature leaves obovate to more or less orbicular, 5–20 mm long, 4–12 mm wide, thin, apices obtuse to retuse, cuneate; those of immature leaves often elliptic; upper surface glabrous; lower surface silky-strigose; stipules suborbicular to broad-ovate or reniform, 1.5–2 mm long, striate; stipels (subtending lateral leaflets only) minute and caducous; leaflet reticulation often more or less obvious. Racemes 3–8-flowered; peduncles mostly 5–10 cm long, slender, hirsute. Flowers on pedicels 0.5–1 mm long, usually compact and distal on rachis; bract elliptic to broad-ovate, 0.5–1.2 mm long, strigose; calyx 2.5–6 mm long, rusty-strigose, lower 3 teeth about the same length as tube; petals usually deep purple; standard 8–9 mm long; keel shorter than wings. Pod linear-lanceolate, 2–2.5 cm long, c. 5 mm wide, dark brown, strigose; seeds 3–5, ovoid, c. 3 mm long, smooth to minutely muricate, dark brown. Flowers mostly Sep.–Dec.(–Feb. at higher altitudes).