Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, strigulose.

(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.

3–10.5 cm;

stipules 4–9 mm;

leaflets 5–11, blades flat, rhombic-oval to obovate or elliptic, 6–35(–50) mm, apex mucronate, surfaces strigose or glabrous.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

4–10-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved, 3.5–7 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

2–5 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.

23–34 mm;

calyx 12–17.5 mm, strigulose, tube 11–14 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla ochroleucous (fading yellowish), or white (fading off-white);

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 22–23 mm, apex blunt.

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

spreading to declined, pallid-stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, inflated, 20–48 × 9–15 mm, moderately fleshy-thickened, becoming stiffly papery to leathery, strigose;

unilocular;

subsessile or substipitate.

55–59.

= 22.