 It is a vigorous climber with stems up to in length and has oval-shaped leaflets in threes that are about long.Dark red pea flowers are produced in racemes from late winter to spring (peaking from October to December) and are followed by pods, which are oblong long and wide, rusty and hairy, with 10–15 seeds to a pod.The species was first published in 1793 by Dutch botanist George Voorhelm Schneevoogt under the later rejected name of "Glycine rubicunda" (Dingy-flowered Glycine) in "Icones Plantarum Rariorum".