Glycine

Vigorous perennial twinning vine, often with woody base. Stems to several metres long, usually densely covered in rusty velvety downward pointed hairs. Previously Notonia wightii.

Weed Category:	Other invasive plants Invasive plants that are not prohibited or restricted invasive plants, but are known to spread readily and cause negative impacts, within the region.
Weed:
Form or habit:	Vine (Climbing, Twining or groundcover)
Family:	Fabaceae
Leaf:	Compound Alternate Compound, alternate pinnate with 3 ovate to elliptic leaflets, 13-150 x 8-125mm, glabrous to densely velvety hairy on both surfaces; stalk 20-120mm long. Stipules persistent, 1-5mm long.
Flower conspicuous:	Conspicuous
Flower colour:	White, Mauve
Flower description:	Pea-shaped, usually white, occasionally mauve, about 10mm long; borne in clusters of 2-7 along axillary racemes, 20-180mm long.
Fruit conspicuous:	Conspicuous
Fruit colour:	Black, Brown
Fruit:	Dry
Fruit description:	Dark brown black, pods, glabrous to densely velvety hairy, 15-35 x 2.5-5mm, and constricted between the 2-6 seeds. Seeds tan flattened and almost rectangular, 2-4 x 1.5-3mm.
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Origin:	India, Malaysia, Indonesia and tropical Africa
Notes:	Introduced as a valuable pasture legume now naturalised and thriving in many areas of coastal and sub-coastal Queensland. Forms a dense tangled mass, smothering vegetation. Environmental weed.
Information sources:	Mackay Regional Pest Management Group (2018) Weeds of the Mackay Whitsunday Region Second Edition.