Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown, not flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous.

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

4–11 mm.

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 × 4–8 mm, not constricted between seeds.

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

= 26.