Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or decumbent, 1–9 cm underground, sparsely strigulose.

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

(2–)3.5–18 cm;

stipules distinct, 3–10 mm, submembranous, glabrous abaxially; petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)15–33, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, obovate, suborbiculate, or broadly oval to linear-elliptic, (2–)3–24 mm, apex obtuse, acute, subacute, or truncate-emarginate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous or glabrescent adaxially.

1.5–5 cm;

stipules 1–2.5 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 5–9, blades cuneate-obovate to narrowly cuneate, 2–10 mm, apex retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(5–)6–25(–35)-flowered, flowers ascending or slightly arched;

axis 1–7(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–7-flowered, flowers spreading to declined;

axis 0.2–1(–1.3) cm in fruit, scarcely elongating;

bracts 0.7–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending to spreading, (1.5–)2–16 cm.

ascending becoming declined or divaricate, 2–7 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.4–2.2 mm.

(16–)16.5–25(–27) mm;

calyx usually broadly or deeply campanulate or cylindro-campanulate, rarely cylindric, (6.6–)7.7–14 mm, densely strigulose, pilosulous, ascending-pilose, or villosulous-tomentulose, tube (5.2–)5.6–9.7 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, (1.3–)1.7–4.2(–5.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, red-purple, white, whitish (faintly lilac-tinged), lilac, ochroleucous, or suffused pinkish lilac;

keel (10.7–)12–20.7 mm.

8.9–12 mm;

calyx 2.8–4 mm, strigulose, tube 2.1–2.6 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.6–1.4 mm;

corolla whitish, banner and keel tips purple;

banner recurved through 20°;

keel 7.4–9.1 mm, apex round.

green, often red-mottled or suffused with red on adaxial surface, becoming brown or blackish, straight, globose, subglobose, broadly and plumply oblong-ellipsoid, oblong-ovoid, or oblong-obovoid, ± obcompressed, 15–40 × 12–27 mm, fleshy becoming alveolate-spongy or pithy, wrinkled on drying, mesocarp at least 1.2 mm thick, glabrous.

horizontal or declined, green or faintly brown-mottled becoming brownish, incurved, crescentic and linear, obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 17–25 × (1.6–)2–3.1 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, base and apex acuminate, strigulose; bearing seeds near middle;

gynophore pseudostipitate, slender, 1.4–2.5 mm.

34–77.

6–12.

= 22.