Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect to ascending, with 2–5(or 6) developed internodes, 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.

(5–)10–21 cm;

stipules 2.5–7 mm, membranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 21–33, blades linear-oblong, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate-oblong, 2–21 mm, apex obtuse or truncate-emarginate to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(8–)12–21-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 4–12(–18) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 14–30 cm, together with racemes much longer than stems.

1.4–5 mm.

0.7–5 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.

11.2–14.1(–17) mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (6.9–)7.6–10.6 mm, strigulose, tube 4.6–5.8 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, (1.9–)2.2–5.2 mm;

corolla greenish white, drying yellowish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°, apex crinkled, 10.5–14 mm;

wings 12.8–17 mm, longer than banner;

keel (9.4–)10.2–12.8 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 or stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 15–25 × (5.5–)6.5–10 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum to 0.6 mm wide;

sessile.

27–40(–46).

23–28.

= 24.