Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

spreading to ascending, glabrous or glabrate.

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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–9.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (11–)15–23, blades broadly oblong, ovate, or obovate to suborbiculate, (4–)6–16(–20) mm, apex retuse or abruptly short-acuminate, surfaces glabrous, sparsely ciliate, abaxially with few hairs on midrib.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.7–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

0.6–1.2 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx 5.2–7 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 3.1–4 mm, lobes subulate, 2.1–3.2 mm;

corolla greenish white, immaculate, often drying cream;

banner recurved through 40–60°;

keel 7.7–10 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.

spreading or declined, stramineous or blackish, incurved to 0.5 spiral, lunately or falcately linear-lanceoloid or linear, 3-sided, 14–24 × 2.6–3.6 mm, firmly papery, glabrous;

septum 1.5–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 0.8–1.9 mm.

33–53.

10–15.