Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, densely silky-strigulose.

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

(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.

mostly reduced to phyllodia, 1–2.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing throughout, 1.5–5 mm, membranous;

phyllodia oblanceolate or spatulate proximally, linear-oblanceolate distally, 10–25 mm, apex acute or subacute, surfaces strigose.

15–45-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (5–)7–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

densely 1–4-flowered;

axis 0–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 6–24 cm.

ascending, prostrate in fruit, 1–2.5 cm.

1.2–5 mm.

0.6–1 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.

5.2–7 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate, 2.5–3.3 mm, strigose, tube 1.7–2.1 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.2 mm;

corolla pink purplish;

banner recurved through 50–70°;

keel 3.7–4.3 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, green, often red-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly curved, narrowly and obliquely lanceoloid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 5.5–8.5 × 1.8–2.5 mm, papery, usually strigose, rarely glabrous;

sessile.

(16–)18–30.

7–11.

= 22.