Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

usually decumbent or ascending, sometimes erect, 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.

4–11 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–10 mm;

leaflets (5–)9–15(–21), blades linear, filiform, or linear-oblanceolate, 15–70 mm, margins involute, apex acuminate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet decurrent, 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.

(7–)12–30-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–13(–17) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

incurved-ascending, (2–)3.5–8(–10.5) cm.

1.2–4 mm.

2–3(–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.

(16–)21–24(–27) mm;

calyx 8–12 mm, strigulose, tube 6.5–9 × 2.8–4.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–3 mm;

corolla white or ochroleucous, drying yellowish;

keel 13.8–16 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.

declined or deflexed, stramineous or brown, straight or slightly decurved, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid to clavate-ellipsoid, ± obcompressed, (10–)15–25 × (4.5–)5–8 mm, woody, glabrous;

sessile.

33–53.

(23–)26–32.

= 22.