Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown, not flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous.

reddish brown, not flexuous, 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.

phyllodic;

phyllode flat, slightly falcate, linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–200 × 3–14 mm, venation pinnate, midvein medial, minor veins not obvious, apex acuminate, apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 1, 1–10 mm distal to pulvinus (not obvious, not disciform);

pulvinus 1–3 mm.

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

globose heads, densely flowered, 5–7 mm diam., in solitary pseudoracemes of 5–9 heads in leaf axils.

4–11 mm.

2–5 mm.

5-merous, pale yellow;

calyx 0.9–1.3 mm;

corolla 1.5–2 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary pubescent.

5-merous, pale yellow to cream;

calyx 0.5–0.9 mm;

corolla 1.2–1.7 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.

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

flattened, linear, 40–160 × 4–7 mm, slightly constricted between seeds.

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

aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed.

= 26.

= 26.