Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

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.

reduced to phyllodia, 0.4–2.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 3–6 mm, membranous;

phyllodia oblanceolate or spatulate, 4–25 mm, apex acute or apiculate, surfaces strigose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

1–4-flowered;

axis 0–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.4–1.8 mm.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or ascending, (0.5–)1–3 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–1.8 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.

10.6–12 mm;

calyx 4.5–7 mm, prominently veined in fruit, strigose, tube 3–4.1 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.3–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7–9.6 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.

ascending, green or red-mottled becoming stramineous or brown, slightly curved, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 6–13(–15) × 2–5 mm, papery, glabrous or glabrate;

sessile.

27–40(–46).

11–14.