Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, pilosulous.

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

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.

reduced to phyllodia, 0.4–2.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 3–6 mm, membranous;

phyllodia oblanceolate or spatulate, 4–25 mm, apex acute or apiculate, surfaces strigose.

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

axis (3–)5–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–9.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

1–4-flowered;

axis 0–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.4–1.8 mm.

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

erect or ascending, (0.5–)1–3 cm.

1–3.7 mm.

0.5–1.8 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.

10.6–12 mm;

calyx 4.5–7 mm, prominently veined in fruit, strigose, tube 3–4.1 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.3–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7–9.6 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.

ascending, green or red-mottled becoming stramineous or brown, slightly curved, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 6–13(–15) × 2–5 mm, papery, glabrous or glabrate;

sessile.

11–14.