Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect or ascending, sparsely villosulous, often glabrous basally.

(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.

(4.5–)7–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (3–)4–12 mm, submembranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)17–29(or 31), blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, (4–)7–32 mm, apex obtuse, subacute, truncate and apiculate, or retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes glabrescent 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.

20–60(–65)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming loosely declined or nodding;

axis (4.5–)6–22(–25) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm.

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

erect, (4–)7–17 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

1.2–4 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.

15.3–18(–19) mm;

calyx cylindric or deeply campanulate, (5.5–)8.7–10.3 mm, villosulous, tube 5.9–8.4 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1.6–3.7 mm;

corolla pale cream, white, or whitish;

keel 13.1–14.7 mm.

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.

spreading or loosely pendulous, stramineous, bicarinate, obliquely elliptic, semielliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, bladdery-inflated, laterally compressed, (21–)25–45 × (6–)8–15.5 mm, thin becoming papery, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

gynophore 3–11 mm, densely villosulous.

34–77.

11–18.

= 22.