Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent and incurved-ascending or erect, sparsely to densely strigulose or glabrate.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

1.5–9.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and submembranous at distal nodes, 1–4 mm, not blackened when dry;

leaflets 11–19, blades elliptic to oblong, lanceolate, or broadly oval, 3–17(–19) mm, apex acute to obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

5–15(–17) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and bidentate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–6 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear- or linear-oblong, 3–35 mm, apex acute or obtuse and mucronate, surfaces glabrous abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(1–)3–13-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

35–60-flowered;

axis 4–8(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 3–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

decumbent or humistrate (in fruit), 3–10(–14) cm.

erect, 9–17(–22) cm.

1.5–4(–4.5) mm.

2–5 mm.

8–10.5 mm;

calyx (3.4–)4.5–6.7 mm, strigose, tube (2.6–)3–4.3 mm, lobes subulate, (0.8–)1.2–2.9 mm;

corolla pink-purple, or whitish and purple-tipped;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 6.7–8.8 mm.

14–17 mm;

calyx contracted apically, 10–11 mm, hirsute, hairs long, straight, tube to 14 mm, enclosing fruit, lobes subulate, 2–3 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13 mm.

pendulous, brown, straight or nearly so, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, laterally flattened, (7–)9–15 × 3–4.2 mm, thinly papery, strigose;

stipe 1–1.5(–2) mm.

deciduous within accrescent calyx, straight or slightly incurved, 6–7.5 × 3.5–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

gynophore 1 mm.

2–6.

= 24.