Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

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.

mostly in sub-basal cluster, (5–)8–20(–28) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, sometimes also at distal nodes, often connate at distal nodes, distalmost sometimes distinct, 3–10 mm, scarious becoming fragile;

leaflets (11–)15–27(–31), blades linear to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or lanceolate-oblong to oblong, 2–25(–38) mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(6–)10–28-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 4–17 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 10–33 cm, together with racemes equaling or longer than stems.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–4.5 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.

(10.8–)11.6–16.4 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5.3–8.6 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 3.2–4.9(–5.8) mm, lobes subulate, 1.6–3.8 mm;

corolla whitish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel (8.9–)9.3–12.6 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.

brownish, straight or slightly incurved, oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided obcompressed, 16–27 × 4–7.5 mm, sub-bilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or woody, glabrous or strigulose;

valves inflexed, septum 0.4–1.3 mm wide;

stipe 3–5(–8) mm.

27–40(–46).

23–32.

= 22.