Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

erect, ascending, or trailing, strigulose to villosulous.

(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.

(2.5–)5–16(–20) cm;

stipules usually distinct, rarely connate at proximal nodes, (2–)3–7 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets (15–)21–35(–39), blades ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, oblong-elliptic or -oblanceolate, (2–)5–20(–25) mm, apex emarginate, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)15–50-flowered, flowers spreading becoming nodding;

axis (2–)3.5–13(–16) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6–26(–30) cm.

1–4 mm.

1.2–5.2 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.

11.3–19 mm;

calyx pallid, obliquely turbinate, 5–8.7 mm, strigulose or strigulose-villosulous, tube 3.6–5.4 mm, lobes subulate, (0.9–)1.1–3.7 mm;

corolla greenish white or cream, rarely veined pale pink or purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel 8.6–13.3 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.

pendulous, pale green or purplish-tinged becoming stramineous, straight or decurved, linear-ellipsoid, fusiform-ellipsoid, semi-ovoid, semi-ellipsoid, ovoid, or oblanceoloid, ± greatly inflated, often bladdery, laterally compressed when narrow, (13–)15–40(–45) × 4.8–18(–21) mm, thin becoming papery, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe filiform, (6–)6.5–17 mm, flexible, strigulose-villosulous.

(16–)18–30.

(10–)12–30.

= 24.