Flora of North America species comparison

erect or stiffly ascending, stout, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, pilose and tomentulose.

erect or ascending, villosulous.

(9–)13–35 cm;

stipules distinct 6–17 mm, herbaceous;

leaflet blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, ovate, oblong-elliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, (7–)10–55 mm, apex acute or abruptly short-acuminate, often callous-apiculate, surfaces pilose and tomentulose.

(4–)5–14 cm;

stipules 3–5 mm, papery;

leaflets (17–)21–27(–33), blades oblong, obovate-cuneate, or oblanceolate, 4–14 mm, apex obtuse to truncate-retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so adaxially.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–25-flowered;

axis 5–12.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, (8–)10–27 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

erect, 5.5–18 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

1–4.5 mm.

(14.4–)15.5–22 mm;

calyx (7.8–)10–14.7 mm, silky-pilose or tomentulose, tube (6–)7–8.7 mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate or linear-lanceolate, 3–6.5 mm;

corolla immaculate;

keel (11.5–)12–15.1 mm.

6.5–8.5 mm;

calyx 5–7.5 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–3.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.7–1.1 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 8.2–12 mm.

stiffly erect, becoming brownish stramineous then blackish, 15–25 × 8–13 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous.

pendulous, stramineous, lunate, lanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, lateral face flat, dorsal face grooved, (16–)20–30 × 3–4.5(–5) mm, length 5–7 times width, stiffly papery, villosulous;

septum 2–3 mm wide;

stipe (4–)7–12(–14) mm.

(11–)13–21.

= 22.