Flora of North America species comparison

smooth, usually eglandular, mostly glabrous or puberulent.

10–18(–22) cm;

stipules linear to narrowly setaceous, 3–5 mm, sometimes sparsely gland-dotted, short-pilose;

petiole (15–)20–35(–50) mm, eglandular, usually glabrous;

rachis eglandular, usually glabrous;

leaflets (7–)9–15(–19), stipels not seen, petiolule 2–5(–7) mm, eglandular, glabrous or pilosulous, blade drying blackish, usually elliptic to oblong, sometimes ovate, 20–40(–70) × (10–)15–35(–45) mm, base round, margins flat, entire, apex usually emarginate, sometimes round, surfaces distinctly shiny adaxially, usually glabrous and eglandular, rarely sparsely puberulent and sparsely gland-dotted abaxially;

midvein terminated by a slender mucro, 0.1–0.2 mm.

1–3(–8)-branched, (5–)8–15(–25) cm;

rachis usually eglandular, usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent;

bracteoles drying blackish, linear to setaceous, 1.5–3(–4) mm, usually eglandular, glabrous or short-pilose.

drying blackish, 1–2.2 mm, eglandular, glabrous or short-pilose.

calyx drying blackish, tube usually funnelform to obconic, rarely campanulate, 2–2.5 mm, usually eglandular, glabrous or short-pilose;

lobes: abaxial lobe triangular, slightly longer, adaxial lobes round to triangular, 0.2–1.4 mm;

banner reddish purple, broadly obovate, 4.5–6 × 3–4.8 mm, obscurely clawed, margins entire or irregularly erose;

filaments 5–7 mm, connate basally 2–2.5 mm;

anthers yellow;

ovary glabrous.

short-stipitate, 6–8 × 2.5–3.5 mm, margins curved outward abaxially, straight or slightly curved inward adaxially, rarely at least distal 1/3 gland-dotted, glabrous.

not seen.