Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, densely silky-strigulose.

obsolete (reduced to 1 to several crowns), with persistent thatch of stipules and petioles.

(5–)7–17(–20) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2–14 mm, scarious;

leaflets (17–)21–35, blades linear, linear-oblong, -elliptic, -lanceolate, or -oblanceolate, (3–)6–26 mm, apex obtuse and apiculate or emarginate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

(3–)4–10 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, (3–)5–14 mm, thick, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose.

15–45-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (5–)7–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 6–24 cm.

ascending, (2–)4–10 cm.

1.2–5 mm.

3–5 mm.

12.6–17.6 mm;

calyx (6.5–)8–11.4 mm, densely silky-strigulose, hairs white, tube 5–7.2 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.5–)2–4.2 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner gently and slightly recurved;

keel 11.5–14.7 mm.

35–41 mm;

calyx cylindric, 18–24 mm, villous, tube (12–)13.5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 3.5–8 mm;

corolla scarlet or crimson;

banner and keel nearly same length, recurved through 20–30°;

keel 35–40 mm.

spreading to pendulous, stramineous, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or semi-ovoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat compressed laterally, (20–)25–43 × 13–18 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

stipe filiform, 14–40 mm, pubescent.

ascending (humistrate), color concealed by hairs, incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-ovoid or narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 25–40 × 9–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, concealing surface.

(16–)18–30.

34–43.

= 22.