Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, strigulose-pilosulous.

decumbent to ascending or erect, strigulose.

7–13(–16) cm;

stipules 4–9 mm, papery at proximal nodes, membranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (13–)17–27, blades obovate, oblong, lanceolate-oblong, or broadly elliptic, 6–26 mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces strigulose-pilosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

3–10.5 cm;

stipules 4–9 mm;

leaflets 5–11, blades flat, rhombic-oval to obovate or elliptic, 6–35(–50) mm, apex mucronate, surfaces strigose or glabrous.

(4–)7–22-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis (2–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

4–10-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, (4–)10–18 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

incurved, 3.5–7 cm.

1–5 mm.

2–5 mm.

15.5–22 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 6.9–10.3 mm, pilosulous, tube 5.2–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.6–2.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, keel immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11–13.1 mm.

23–34 mm;

calyx 12–17.5 mm, strigulose, tube 11–14 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla ochroleucous (fading yellowish), or white (fading off-white);

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 22–23 mm, apex blunt.

erect, brown-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or oblong-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 13–18 × 4–6 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

sessile.

spreading to declined, pallid-stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, inflated, 20–48 × 9–15 mm, moderately fleshy-thickened, becoming stiffly papery to leathery, strigose;

unilocular;

subsessile or substipitate.

14–18.

55–59.