Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

spreading to ascending, glabrous or glabrate.

(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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–9.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (11–)15–23, blades broadly oblong, ovate, or obovate to suborbiculate, (4–)6–16(–20) mm, apex retuse or abruptly short-acuminate, surfaces glabrous, sparsely ciliate, abaxially with few hairs on midrib.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2.5–)5–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.7–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

1–4 mm.

0.6–1.2 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx 5.2–7 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 3.1–4 mm, lobes subulate, 2.1–3.2 mm;

corolla greenish white, immaculate, often drying cream;

banner recurved through 40–60°;

keel 7.7–10 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.

spreading or declined, stramineous or blackish, incurved to 0.5 spiral, lunately or falcately linear-lanceoloid or linear, 3-sided, 14–24 × 2.6–3.6 mm, firmly papery, glabrous;

septum 1.5–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 0.8–1.9 mm.

(16–)18–30.

10–15.

= 24.