Flora of North America species comparison

single or few, decumbent-ascending, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

ascending, strigulose.

4.5–11 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 11–21(or 23), blades obovate-cuneate, ovate, broadly oblong-elliptic, or suborbiculate, 5–20 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate and glaucescent.

2.5–11 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, firm at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–17, blades oblong-oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or obovate, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely 9–20-flowered;

axis 4.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 2.5–6(–10) cm.

0.6–2 mm.

0.8–2 mm.

12–15 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.9–7.6 mm, strigulose, tube 4.5–5.6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla reddish purple with white or lilac wing tips;

keel 9.5–10.6 mm.

6.9–7.6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 6.8–7.7 mm.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green suffused or dotted red becoming stramineous, straight to incurved, oblong or broadly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 15–37 × 8–21 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming papery, stiffly leathery, or subligneous, glabrous;

septum to 3.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–8 mm.

pendulous, mottled (and glaucescent) becoming stramineous and faintly purple-tinged, slightly incurved, oblong-lanceoloid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 18–25 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 2.4–2.7 mm wide;

stipe 3–4 mm.

(27–)30–36.

11–16.