Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

(4–)5–14 cm;

stipules 2–6(–7) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (15–)19–25(or 27), blades elliptic, linear-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 2–14 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, truncate-apiculate, or shallowly retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

5–15(–17) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and bidentate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–6 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear- or linear-oblong, 3–35 mm, apex acute or obtuse and mucronate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

35–60-flowered;

axis 4–8(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 3–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, often incurved, (7–)10–18(–20) cm.

erect, 9–17(–22) cm.

1–4 mm.

2–5 mm.

11.7–15.2 mm;

calyx 6.6–8.8 mm, strigose, tube 4.5–6 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel (9.5–)10–11.7 mm.

14–17 mm;

calyx contracted apically, 10–11 mm, hirsute, hairs long, straight, tube to 14 mm, enclosing fruit, lobes subulate, 2–3 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13 mm.

pendulous, stramineous, straight or gently incurved, linear-ellipsoid, 3-sided and laterally compressed, lateral face flat, dorsal face grooved, (25–)30–45 × 2.5–3.3 mm, length mostly 10 times width, papery, finely strigulose;

septum 1.6–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 6–15 mm.

deciduous within accrescent calyx, straight or slightly incurved, 6–7.5 × 3.5–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

gynophore 1 mm.

(16–)18–30.

= 24.

= 24.