Flora of North America species comparison

smooth, often with spinelike glands, mostly short-pilose to puberulent, glabrate, or glabrous.

(5–)10–20 cm;

stipules linear to narrowly oblong, (2–)4–6 mm;

petiole (7–)10–15(–25) mm, glands spinelike, scattered, puberulent or glabrous;

rachis glands spinelike, puberulent to short-pilose;

leaflets (11–)13–19(–25), stipels acicular, 1–1.5 mm, petiolule 0.7–1.5(–1.8) mm, gland-dotted, pilosulous or glabrous, blade mostly oblong, (8–)15–25(–42) × (6–)10–15(–20) mm, base round to subcordate, margins not revolute, entire or finely crenulate, apex round to obtuse or emarginate, surfaces puberulent to short-pilose or glabrous;

midveins terminated by a swollen, globose mucro, 0.2–0.5 mm.

blade surfaces glabrous, except midveins adaxially pubescent.

unbranched, (5–)10–18(–25) cm;

rachis often with spinelike glands, pilose;

bracteoles linear to lanceolate, 1.5–4 mm, usually gland-dotted, sometimes eglandular, short-pilose.

0.3–1.2 mm, eglandular, mostly puberulent to short-pilose.

calyx tube narrowly cylindric to funnelform, 2–2.8 mm, distal 1/2 sometimes gland-dotted, puberulent, short-pilose, or glabrous;

lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, 0.4–2(–2.5) mm;

banner reddish purple, broadly obovate, 5–7 × 2.5–4 mm, indistinctly clawed, margins entire;

filaments 6–7 mm, connate basally 2–3.2 mm;

anthers pale yellow;

ovary mostly densely short-pilose.

tube glab-rous or sparsely short-pilose;

lobes 0.4–0.8(–1) mm.

sessile, 6–8 × 2.5–3.5 mm, margins curved outward abaxially, straight adaxially, at least distal 1/2 gland-dotted, mostly short-pilose.

olive brown or reddish brown, 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm, smooth.