Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

erect, glabrous or sparsely villous.

(3–)4–12 cm;

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

leaflets (17–)21–29, blades flat or loosely folded, oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic, 3–13 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

(3.5–)5–12(–16) cm;

stipules 4–15 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (13–)19–27(–37), blades ovate, lanceolate-oblong, or oblong-obovate, (3–)5–22 mm, midrib prominent, pubescent abaxially, apex truncate and apiculate, retuse, obtuse, or subacute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(10–)15–40-flowered;

axis (1–)2–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)4–11 cm.

erect, 5–13 cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

0.6–1.8 mm.

5.8–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.4–4.3 mm, strigulose, hairs black and/or white, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2 mm;

corolla whitish or, sometimes, greenish ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner abruptly incurved through 90°;

keel 4.2–5.6 mm.

9.1–11 mm;

calyx 6.6–9 mm, sparsely villous-villosulous, tube 3.2–4.3 × 2.4–3 mm, lobes linear to lanceolate-acuminate, 3.3–4.9 mm;

corolla white, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7–7.4 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved or decurved, linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate, 3-sided compressed, 15–30 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, bilocular, papery, glabrous;

valves inflexed as complete septum 1.4–1.9 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–2.5 mm.

declined, stramineous or brown, slightly incurved, obliquely lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, grooved dorsally, 11–15 × 3–3.4 mm, papery, villosulous, hairs 1+ mm;

septum 1.5–2.2 mm wide;

stipe 0.3–0.4 mm.

12–16.

8 or 9.