Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to erect, diffuse, 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.

1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–3.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, blades obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 2–9 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate, surfaces strigose-pilosulous abaxially, strigose-pilosulous or glabrate adaxially.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

subumbellate, 2–9-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 0.7–2.5 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

1–1.8 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.

6.6–8.6 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.2–5.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.7–3.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.2 mm;

corolla purplish to pink-purple or whitish;

banner recurved through 90–100°;

keel 6.6–7.2 mm, apex narrowly triangular, sometimes beaklike.

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

deciduous from receptacle, ascending to declined, red or purple throughout or mottled, straight, ovoid or ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 13–29 × 7–17 mm, thin becoming papery, strigose;

gynophore 0.7–1.5 mm.

7–22.

= 22.