Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown, not flexuous, ridged, glabrous.

gray to dark reddish brown, not flexuous, slightly ridged, glabrous.

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.

phyllodic;

phyllode flat, falcate, linear to narrowly elliptic, 100–200 × 12–28 mm, venation parallel, mostly with 3 prominent veins, minor veins prominent, apex narrowly obtuse, not apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 1, 0–3 mm distal to pulvinus;

pulvinus 3–5 mm.

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

cylindrical, interrupted spikes, loosely flowered, 50–85 × 4–7 mm, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 in leaf axils, rarely in pseudoracemes.

2–5 mm.

5–10 mm.

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.

5-merous, light golden yellow;

calyx 0.9–1.3 mm;

corolla 1.6–2.4 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary pubescent.

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

flattened, oblong, 30–160 × 8–18 mm, not constricted between seeds.

aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed.

aril light yellow, encircling seed.

= 26.

= 26.