Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, strigulose.

spreading to ascending, glabrous or glabrate.

(2–)3–11 cm;

stipules 3–9 mm, papery proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic or oblong, 1–22(–30) mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–9.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (11–)15–23, blades broadly oblong, ovate, or obovate to suborbiculate, (4–)6–16(–20) mm, apex retuse or abruptly short-acuminate, surfaces glabrous, sparsely ciliate, abaxially with few hairs on midrib.

(5–)7–27-flowered;

axis (1–)3.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(or 1).

10–25-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.7–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3.5–)5–18 cm, surpassing subtending leaf.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

0.5–2 mm (0.8–3 mm in fruit).

0.6–1.2 mm.

(4.1–)5.5–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.3–5.4 mm, strigulose to pilosulous, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 0.9–1.6 mm;

corolla blue-purple, pale pink, or whitish;

keel 4–5.7 mm.

10–14 mm;

calyx 5.2–7 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 3.1–4 mm, lobes subulate, 2.1–3.2 mm;

corolla greenish white, immaculate, often drying cream;

banner recurved through 40–60°;

keel 7.7–10 mm.

spreading or reflexed, dark when dry, usually somewhat decurved, subsymmetrically or obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, (4–)5–12(–13) × (2.3–)2.5–5.5 mm, sub-bilocular, firmly papery, base cuneate, apex shortly cuspidate, strigose-pilosulous;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum (0.2–)0.4–1.2 mm wide;

sessile or subsessile.

spreading or declined, stramineous or blackish, incurved to 0.5 spiral, lunately or falcately linear-lanceoloid or linear, 3-sided, 14–24 × 2.6–3.6 mm, firmly papery, glabrous;

septum 1.5–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 0.8–1.9 mm.

4–8.

10–15.

= 16, 32.