Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, pilosulous.

erect or ascending, strigulose to pilose, cinereous or canescent.

both cauline and in sub-basal cluster, (5–)7–20 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, (3–)5–11 mm, fragile, submembranous early becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 25–37, blades linear-elliptic, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 5–27 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or retuse, surfaces pilosulous, sometimes glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet often continuous with rachis.

3–10(–14) cm;

stipules 2.5–10 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, (2–)4–27(–45) mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(6–)10–30-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (3–)5–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–9.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

9–47-flowered;

axis (2–)3–15(–20) cm in fruit;

bracts (2–)3–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 12–30 cm, together with racemes longer than stems.

erect, 1–4(–5.5) cm, much shorter than subtending leaves.

1–3.7 mm.

0.3–1.2 mm.

18–23 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (10–)11–15 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube (5.7–)6–7.9 × 3.6–4.8 mm, lobes lanceolate or lanceolate-caudate, (2.6–)4.6–6.7(–7.5) mm;

corolla cream, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 13.4–15.6 mm.

13–17.2 mm;

calyx (7.2–)7.5–11 mm, strigulose to pilose, tube (5.4–)5.7–7.4 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.5–)1.8–3.6 mm;

corolla banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.4–12.8 mm.

brownish stramineous, ± straight, broadly oblong-ovoid to narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 11–22 × 4.5–7.2 mm, unilocular or sub-bilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, usually villous-pilose or glabrescent, rarely glabrous;

septum to 1 mm wide;

sessile.

brown-stramineous, gently incurved, dorsiventrally compressed or 3-sided at dehiscence, carinate by ventral suture, beak laterally compressed, 9–12 × 3.3–5 mm, papery, strigose or glabrous;

stipe 0.7–2.5 mm.

= 22.