Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, strigulose.

decumbent to ascending.

mostly in sub-basal cluster, (6–)10–30 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 3–10(–11) mm, scarious throughout;

leaflets (9–)13–25(–31), blades linear-oblong, linear-elliptic, lanceolate, or subfiliform, 3–23 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes continuous with rachis.

2–10 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–3.5 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery or membranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate to oval, 3–14 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate or mucronate, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

7–20-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (3–)4–13(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–9-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.3–2.3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, sometimes divergent in fruit, 5–33 cm, together with racemes longer than stems.

ascending or incurved, 1.5–4.5 cm.

1–4.5 mm.

1–2.5 mm.

15–25.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, cylindric, or subcylindric, 7–12 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 4.9–9.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–3(–4) mm;

corolla whitish with keel tip purple, sometimes banner and wings also purple-tipped, sometimes purple throughout;

banner recurved through 30–45°, oblanceolate or broadly rhombic-oblanceolate, 16–25.5 mm, apex emarginate;

keel 11.6–17.5 mm.

7.5–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–6.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–3.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.4 mm;

corolla whitish or tinged lavender;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 6.5–8 mm, apex deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, oblong-ellipsoid to narrowly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 12–25 × 4.3–8 mm, sub-bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous or strigulose;

septum to 1.4 mm wide;

sessile.

spreading to declined, greenish, often purple-mottled, becoming stramineous or brownish, slightly incurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, inflated, 14–22 × 6–13 mm, thin becoming papery, minutely strigulose to glabrate;

gynophore 1–2.5 mm.

15–30.

9–13.

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