Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown, not flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous.

phyllodic;

phyllode flat, not falcate, narrowly elliptic, 50–150 × 10–25 mm, venation parallel, with 2–4 prominent veins, minor veins prominent, apex acute to obtuse, apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 1, 0–7 mm distal to pulvinus;

pulvinus 2–5 mm.

phyllodic, juvenile compound leaves often persisting on young plants;

phyllode flat, straight to slightly falcate, usually narrowly elliptic, rarely oblanceolate, 40–140 × 6–25 mm, venation parallel, with 3–5 prominent veins, minor veins prominently reticulate, apex narrowly obtuse to acute, apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 0 (or 1), 0–5 mm distal to pulvinus when present;

pulvinus 2–5 mm.

cylindrical spikes, densely flowered, 20–50 × 5–8 mm, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 in leaf axils.

globose heads, densely flowered, 6–9 mm diam., in solitary pseudoracemes of 2–8 heads in leaf axils.

0–2 mm.

4–11 mm.

4-merous, bright yellow;

calyx 0.6–0.9 mm;

corolla 1.5–2.1 mm;

filaments 2.6–3.6 mm;

ovary pubescent.

5-merous, pale yellow;

calyx 0.9–1.3 mm;

corolla 1.5–2 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary pubescent.

elliptic in cross section, linear, 50–150 × 5–9 mm, somewhat constricted between seeds.

elliptic in cross section, linear, 50–150 × 4–8 mm, not constricted between seeds.

aril light yellow, folded several times into thickened, lateral, skirtlike aril covering seed apex.

aril yellow to pink to deep red, encircling seed in irregular double fold.

= 26.