Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

stiffly erect or ascending, or finally straggling and supported on bushes, fistulose, glabrous.

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.

(4.5–)6–17 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–14 mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (17 or)19–35, blades broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate or oblong-obovate, 6–33 mm, apex retuse or truncate-obtuse, surfaces mostly glabrous, margins and midribs sparsely strigulose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(15–)20–60(–75)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (3–)4–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 1.5–6(–7) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1–3.5 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.

10.5–12.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–6 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 3.5–4.6 mm, lobes deltate or subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, rarely tinged purplish, drying brownish;

banner abruptly recurved through 70–90°;

keel 9–10.8 mm, apex sharply triangular.

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.

persistent on receptacle, erect, stramineous, straight, obliquely ovoid-acuminate, greatly inflated, scarcely bladdery, terete or somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 15–25 × (8.5–)10–16 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous or minutely strigulose.

27–40(–46).

44–58.

= 22.