Flora of North America species comparison

dark purplish brown to black, slightly flexuous, ridged, puberulent.

reddish brown, not flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous.

compound, 50–140 mm;

petiole 5–30 mm, puberulent, gland present, below proximalmost pinna pair, 0.7–1.5 mm diam., puberulent;

rachis glands scattered, with some between pinna pairs (at pinna pair nodes and internodes);

pinnae 7–31 pairs, 15–70 mm, 3–7 mm between pinna pairs;

leaflets 20–70 pairs per pinna, blades linear, 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse, not apiculate, surfaces puberulent.

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.

globose heads, densely flowered, 5–9 mm diam., in axillary pseudoracemes of 20–35 heads or terminal pseudopanicles of 1–10 pseudoracemes.

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

4–9 mm.

4–11 mm.

5-merous, pale yellow to cream;

calyx 0.6–1.1 mm;

corolla 1.4–2 mm;

filaments 3.5–4.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.

5-merous, pale yellow;

calyx 0.9–1.3 mm;

corolla 1.5–2 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary pubescent.

flattened, linear, 30–140 × 4–8 mm, slightly constricted between seeds.

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

aril light yellow, obovate, 1–2 mm, forming cap on seed.

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

= 26.

= 26.