Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, densely silky-strigulose.

prostrate to decumbent, finely cinereous, glabrous, or glabrate.

(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.

2–8 cm;

stipules 2–6 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous;

leaflets (7 or)9–19(or 21), blades obovate to oblong or oblanceolate to elliptic, 3–18 mm, apex truncate to retuse, obtuse, or mucronate, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially.

15–45-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis (5–)7–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

7–17-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis 0.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 6–24 cm.

ascending or incurved, 1–4.5 cm.

1.2–5 mm.

0.3–2 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.

9–15.5 mm;

calyx shortly cylindric, (3.3–)5–8 mm, strigose, tube 2.6–5 mm, lobes subulate, (0.6–)1–3 mm;

corolla usually purple, lilac, or whitish, rarely cream (concolorous), sometimes keel tips purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7.5–12 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.

disjointing from receptacle when mature, ascending to declined, green, often red-mottled, becoming stramineous or purplish, curved through 0.25–0.5+ spiral, obliquely lanceoloid, dorsiventrally or 3-sided compressed, (20–)25–40 × (2.5–)3–8.5 mm, unilocular to semibilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigose;

sessile.

(16–)18–30.

14–30.

= 22.