Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect to ascending, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, strigulose-pilosulous.

1.5–14(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)4–11 mm, submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets 1–13(or 15), blades obovate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, 3–20 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

7–13(–16) cm;

stipules 4–9 mm, papery at proximal nodes, membranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (13–)17–27, blades obovate, oblong, lanceolate-oblong, or broadly elliptic, 6–26 mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces strigulose-pilosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(4–)7–22-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis (2–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, (4–)10–18 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

1.4–5 mm.

1–5 mm.

14–32 mm;

calyx cylindric or campanulate, 7–20 mm, villous, tube 5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–26 mm.

15.5–22 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 6.9–10.3 mm, pilosulous, tube 5.2–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.6–2.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, keel immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11–13.1 mm.

ascending (humistrate), brown-stramineous, incurved, obliquely ovoid, obcompressed, (13–)18–28(–36) × 7–13(–17) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely hirtellous to densely villous-tomentose, usually concealing surfaces.

erect, brown-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or oblong-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 13–18 × 4–6 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

sessile.

27–40(–46).

14–18.