Flora of North America species comparison

reddish brown, not flexuous, ridged, glabrous.

brown to purple-brown, fragrant when crushed (vanilla-scented), not flexuous, ridged (resin-ribbed), 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, straight, oblanceolate, 20–70 × 5–15 mm, venation parallel, with 5–12 prominent veins, minor veins not obvious, apex obtuse, apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 1, at edge of pulvinus;

pulvinus 1–3 mm.

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

globose heads, densely flowered, 3–5 mm diam., solitary or clustered in short pseudoracemes of 2–6 heads in distal leaf axils.

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, light yellow;

calyx 0.5–0.8 mm;

corolla 1–1.6 mm;

filaments 2–3 mm;

ovary glabrous.

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

flattened, linear, 30–60 × 2–4 mm, constricted between seeds.

aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed.

aril cream-white, thickened, forming cap on seed.

= 26.