Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

decumbent to erect, 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.

(6–)8–20(–24) cm;

stipules 3–8 mm, submembranous early becoming papery;

leaflets (9–)17–25, blades oblong, elliptic, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, (7–)10–20(–28) mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(9–)15–30-flowered, flowers spreading to nodding;

axis (3–)5–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, 8–16 cm.

1–4 mm.

1.5–5 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.

18.5–20.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 9.6–12.2 mm, strigulose, tube 7–9 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, (1–)2–3.2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 13–15 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.

erect, green, sometimes suffused or speckled with purple, becoming stramineous, straight or nearly so, subsymmetrically oblong- or ovoid-ellipsoid, moderately inflated, obcompressed, both sutures grooved, 11–22 × (4.5–)6.5–10 mm, base truncate, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum 1.4–1.8 mm wide;

stipe 12–18 mm.

(16–)18–30.

21–32.

= 24.