Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns or developed, to 6 cm, internodes to 1.5 cm, strigulose.

indistinctly flexuous (if at all), spreading to prostrate, sparsely strigulose.

6–18 cm;

stipules 4–9 mm, papery;

leaflets (15 or)17–29, blades obovate to elliptic, 4–19 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or retuse, surfaces strigulose.

(3–)5–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm;

leaflets 5–11, blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, -elliptic, or filiform, (2–)5–25 mm, apex acute to subacute, surfaces strigulose;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

loosely (9–)12–22(–25)-flowered, flowers spreading or declined;

axis 15–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)5–15(–22)-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis (1.5–)2–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (4–)6–13 cm.

divaricate and incurved, (2–)4–20 cm.

1–4.5 mm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

18–22 mm;

calyx cylindric to deeply and broadly campanulate, 11.3–15 mm, strigulose, tube 8.2–10.6 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate-subulate, 2.3–4.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 16.3–18 mm.

9.4–12.2 mm;

calyx subcylindric to campanulate, 3.5–5 mm, strigulose, hairs black and white, tube 3–4 × 2.3–2.8(–3.1) mm, lobes triangular, 0.6–1 mm;

corolla pinkish red, with darker red veins, keel and wings buff-yellow, banner white-tipped;

banner recurved through 35–45°;

keel incurved through 40–85°, blades longer than claws, 8.2–10 mm, apex obtuse and beaklike.

ascending (humistrate), green or purple-tinged becoming stramineous or brownish, gently recurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed in proximal 1/2, 25–50 × 7–13 mm, unilocular or appearing partially bilocular, valves 1–2 mm thick, thickly fleshy becoming rigidly woody, strongly reticulate, strigulose; didymous, septum forming a narrowly tubular or 3-sided cavity throughout, sutures subcontiguous.

brown or stramineous, sometimes initially mottled, straight or slightly curved, linear-oblong or linear-lanceoloid, strongly laterally compressed, 15–35 × 3–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose or if glabrous then mottled;

stipe (4–)6–14 mm.

(35–)39–48.

13–17.

= 22.