Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to decumbent or ascending, 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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, subherbaceous or papery;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(or 23), blades linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–20(–24) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

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

axis 15–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(10–)15–50-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (4–)6–13 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)5–12 cm.

1–4.5 mm.

0.3–1.2 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.

4.2–6.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–3.6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.7–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla yellow to green, suffused pale lavender, fading ochroleucous, wing tips pale or white;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.7–5 mm, apex round.

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.

stramineous, narrowly lanceoloid or linear-ellipsoid, 6–12 × 1.3–2 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

(35–)39–48.

6–10.

= 22.

= 28.