Flora of North America species comparison

and herbage strigulose, hairs malpighian.

several to many.

0.9–2.4 cm;

stipules 1–12 mm;

leaflets (3 or)5(or 7), blades 4–15 mm, surfaces pubescent.

odd-pinnate, sessile or subsessile to petiolate;

leaflets (3–)5–21, jointed or decurrent.

sometimes paired, loosely or remotely flowered, flowers ascending, spreading, or declined.

0.2–0.6 cm.

7.3–10 mm;

calyx 6–8.3 mm, tube 2.4–3.3 mm, lobes subulate, spinulose, 3.4–5 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

pink-purple, whitish, or ochroleucous, banner recurved through 40–90°, keel apex obtuse.

tubes usually campanulate, sometimes turbinate-campanulate.

subsymmetrically ellipsoid, lanceoloid- or oblong-ellipsoid, (5–)7–10 × 2.8–4 mm.

eventually deciduous or persistent, sessile or stipitate, deflexed, declined, or pendulous, linear, oblong, ellipsoid, lenticular, or ovoid- or obovoid-subglobose, compressed laterally or bladdery-inflated, unilocular.

4–8.

2–9(–11).

usually basifixed, rarely malpighian (in some varieties of A. kentrophyta).

connate or distinct at distal nodes.

= 24.