Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

decumbent and ascending, sometimes fistulose, sparsely strigulose or glabrous.

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–)8–20 cm;

stipules mostly distinct, (2–)4–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

sessile or subsessile to short-petiolate;

leaflets 25–41, blades narrowly oblong, ovate-cuneate, or rhombic-ovate, (3–)6–30(–37) mm, apex truncate, emarginate and apiculate, or subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose or glabrous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)20–45-flowered, flowers horizontal or declined;

axis 3.5–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5.5–14 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

0.6–3.5 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.

11.1–15.3 mm;

calyx broadly campanulate, obliquely truncate or subgibbous abaxially, 5–7.2(–7.7) mm, strigulose, tube 3.5–4.8(–5) mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, (1–)1.3–2.6(–3) mm;

corolla white, greenish white, or ochroleucous;

keel 9.4–13.2 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.

readily deciduous, horizontal or ascending, pale green or purplish stramineous, obliquely ovoid or semi-ovoid, bladdery-inflated, (18–)23–45(–50) × (10–)12–20 mm, thin becoming papery, translucent, sublustrous, sparsely strigulose or glabrate;

sessile.

33–53.

34–55.

= 22.