Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

decumbent to incurved-ascending, strigulose to pilose.

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.

(5–)8–23 cm;

stipules (3–)6–12 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (19–)23–39(–43), blades usually lanceolate-ovate or rhombic-elliptic, sometimes oblong-obovate, (3–)5–20 mm, apex usually acute or subacute, sometimes obtuse or emarginate, surfaces strigulose to pilose abaxially, glabrescent or glabrate adaxially.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)12–24-flowered, flowers nodding, secund, retrorsely imbricate;

axis (3–)5–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

incurved-ascending, (5–)6–15 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

1–3.5 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.

15.7–19.2 mm;

calyx cylindric to broadly campanulate, 9.6–13 mm, strigulose, tube 6.8–9.4 mm, lobes lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, 2.8–4.4 mm;

corolla dull pinkish lavender, greenish purple, or bright magenta-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11.3–12.7 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.

loosely pendulous (from ascending peduncles) or ascending (and humistrate), stramineous then brownish, gently incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, obcompressed, (17–)20–33 × (4–)7–11 mm, ± unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose.

33–53.

28–33.

= 22.