Glycine clandestina commonly known as twining glycine, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It has green leaves with three leaflets, mauve pea flowers and grows in Tasmania and eastern states of Australia.
Glycine clandestina is a slender, twining climber, stems up to long covered in soft hairs, winding over grasses and taller shrubs. Leaves consist of three, variable sized, linear-shaped leaflets, long, wide and occasional appressed hairs, apex rounded or pointed. Flowers are borne in leaf axils on long stalks, mauve, pale blue or pink, pea-shaped, petals to long. Flowering may occur anytime of the year and fruit is an oblong, straight, flattened pod with short hairs, up to long and wide containing 4-12 seeds.
Glycine clandestina was first formally described in 1798 by Johann Christoph Wendland and the description was published in '.The specific epithet (clandestina) means "concealed, hidden".
Twining glycine grows in woodland, forests and ranges in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.