Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

usually erect or ascending, sometimes diffuse, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

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.

compound, unifoliolate, or reduced to phyllodia, 2.5–14.8 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1–5 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets (0 or 1–)3–5, lateral blades linear to oblong, 3–20 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrate abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet longer, decurrent, not jointed to rachis.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely 5–12(–14)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 11–27(–29) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

2–5.5 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.

19–26 mm;

calyx 6–9.6 mm, sparsely strigose to glabrate, tube 5.2–7.5 × 3.6 mm, lobes triangular, (0.8–)1.1–2.1 mm;

corolla pale pink-purple, wing tips paler or white, keel maculate;

keel 12.2–13 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.

deflexed (through curvature of pedicel), stramineous, straight (and subsymmetric) or slightly decurved, oblong-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 12–25 × 5–7.5 mm, leathery-woody, terminal cusp 2.5–4 mm), glabrous;

sessile.

27–40(–46).

18–20.

= 22.