Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

spreading to ascending and diffuse, with well-developed internodes, sparsely strigulose.

1.5–13 cm;

stipules 3.5–10 mm, firmly papery;

leaflets (1 or)3 or 5, blades elliptic to lanceolate, 5–35(–47) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

(2.5–)4.5–10.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–6 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (7–)15–25, blades linear-oblong, -oblanceolate, or filiform, 1–11 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(5–)8–20-flowered;

axis (2–)3–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

(0.5–)1.5–7 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

(18.5–)20–28 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–16 mm, strigose-pilose, tube 9.5–13.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (18–)19–22.7 mm.

6–8.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–5 mm, strigulose, tube (1.5–)1.8–3 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2 mm;

corolla usually white or whitish, rarely yellow, drying yellowish, banner sometimes brownish-striate;

banner abruptly recurved through (50–)85–100°;

keel 4.7–5.7 mm.

ascending to spreading (humistrate), green or purplish, incurved, obliquely ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 15–36 × 8–17 mm, unilocular, thickly succulent becoming alveolate-spongy, spongy-thickened cellular tissue 1.5–2 mm thick, hirsutulous to villous-hirsute, hairs spreading, 0.6–2 mm.

pendulous, stramineous, slightly incurved, lunately semi-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 9–16 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, finely strigulose;

septum 1.3–2 mm wide;

stipe 3–5 mm.

33–53.

11–16.