Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect and incurved-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.

(2.5–)3–8 cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets (11–)17–25, blades oval-oblong, oblanceolate, narrowly obovate, ovate, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–11 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or retuse, 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.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered;

axis (2.5–)6–18(–22) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved, (2–)4–11 cm, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–1.8 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.

6.3–7.2 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.2–4.1 mm, strigulose, hairs white, black, or fuscous, tube 2.1–2.6 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes tinged with lavender;

banner abruptly incurved through 100°;

keel 4.6–5.5 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.

stramineous, straight or nearly so, linear-oblong or ellipsoid, obscurely 3-sided compressed, 13–22 × 3.2–4.1 mm, incompletely bilocular, papery, black-strigulose;

valves inflexed as nearly complete septum 0.8–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 2.2–5 mm.

27–40(–46).

7–13.

= 22.