Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown, not flexuous, ridged, glabrous.

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

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.

compound, 80–170 mm;

petiole 8–22 mm, densely puberulent, gland present, below proximalmost pinna pair, 0.5–1 mm diam., puberulent;

rachis gland between most pinna pairs;

pinnae 6–30 pairs, 15–55 mm, 2–7 mm between pinna pairs;

leaflets 15–70 pairs per pinna, blades linear, 2–5 × 0.4–0.8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse to acute, not apiculate, surfaces densely puberulent.

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

globose heads, densely flowered, 6–9 mm diam., in axillary pseudoracemes of 11–30 heads or terminal pseudopanicles of 1–15 pseudoracemes.

2–5 mm.

2–6 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, pale yellow to cream;

calyx 0.6–1.1 mm;

corolla 1.4–2 mm;

filaments 3.5–4.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.

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

flattened, oblong, 20–110 × 6–14 mm, constricted between some seeds.

aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed.

aril light yellow, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed.

= 26.

= 26.