Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

erect or ascending, glabrate, sometimes sparsely strigose distally.

(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.

3–22 cm;

stipules usually distinct throughout, rarely connate-sheathing at proximal nodes (var. avonensis), 2–7(–9) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 7–33, blades obovate, elliptic, oblong, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 3–50 mm, apex obtuse or retuse to acute, surfaces sparsely strigose or glabrescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

8–33-flowered, flowers deflexed;

axis 3–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–7 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, 4–26 cm.

1–4 mm.

1–7 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.

(11–)15–24 mm;

calyx green or yellowish, gibbous, 5.8–14 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose, tube 4.4–7.5 mm, lobes erect-ascending, subulate, deltate, lanceolate-subulate, lanceolate-attenuate, or triangular-subulate, 0.3–6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or pale lemon yellow, keel often faintly to definitely maculate (purplish-tipped) or immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11.5–17 mm, apex bluntly rectangular.

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.

firmly attached to receptacle, falling while attached to pedicel, erect to spreading or declined, green or purplish-speckled becoming brown or stramineous, usually straight, ellipsoid, ovoid, cylindroid, obovoid, or subglobose, inflated, 18–42 × 5–25 mm, subunilocular, fleshy becoming leathery-woody, glabrous or puberulent;

septum 0.8–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 0–8 mm.

(16–)18–30.

40–75(–84).

= 24.