Compilation
Glycine bequaertii

Erect or rarely straggling herb or subshrub 12–90 cm tall, sometimes flowering when only 12 cm tall and leaves small, rarely attaining c. 2 m; rootstock woody. Stems 1–few, simple or little-branched, densely covered with spreading whitish hairs. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflet (3.5)5–17 × (1.5)3.5–10 cm, ovate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, or rounded and mucronulate at the apex, emarginate, truncate or cuneate at the base, sparsely to densely, shortly bristly pilose on both surfaces; venation raised and closely reticulate beneath; petiolules 3–5 mm long; stipules 7–12 mm long, linear-lanceolate. Inflorescences terminal or in upper axils, paniculate or pseudoracemose, dense and subcapitate, up to 3 cm long above a peduncle 1–15 cm long; flowers paired; primary pedicels 0–4 mm long; primary bracts 4–8 mm long, linear; secondary pedicels 1–2(4) mm long; secondary bracts linear, small; bracteoles 2–3 mm long, linear; all bracts persistent and somewhat accrescent. Calyx puberulous and with appressed bristly white hairs; tube 2–3 mm long; lobes 2–3 mm long, narrowly triangular, the upper pair joined for about half their length. Standard white, 4–7 × 2–3 mm, oblong-obovate, appressed pubescent above outside. Pod 1.2–1.7 cm × 5.5–7.5 mm, oblong-elliptic, compressed, margined, densely covered with rather long bristly whitish or blackish tubercular hairs. Seeds grey-brown to dark reddish-brown, 3–4.3 × 2–3 × 1.5 mm, oblong-reniform, compressed; rim aril well developed and bearing remains of the funicle.