Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, strigulose.

erect or stiffly ascending, stout, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, pilose and tomentulose.

(2.5–)4–10 cm;

stipules 1.5–2.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or with herbaceous tips at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades broadly oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong or linear-elliptic, 2–10(–15) mm, apex obtuse to truncate, shallowly retuse, or subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, sparsely strigulose or glabrous adaxially.

(9–)13–35 cm;

stipules distinct 6–17 mm, herbaceous;

leaflet blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, ovate, oblong-elliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, (7–)10–55 mm, apex acute or abruptly short-acuminate, often callous-apiculate, surfaces pilose and tomentulose.

(3–)6–14-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

straight, sometimes incurved-ascending, 3–15 cm.

erect, (8–)10–27 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

0.5–2.2 mm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

7–10.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, (3.1–)3.6–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube (2.3–)2.8–4 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.4–1.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or whitish suffused with lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (6.3–)7–10 mm, apex triangular and beaklike.

(14.4–)15.5–22 mm;

calyx (7.8–)10–14.7 mm, silky-pilose or tomentulose, tube (6–)7–8.7 mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate or linear-lanceolate, 3–6.5 mm;

corolla immaculate;

keel (11.5–)12–15.1 mm.

persistent on receptacle until well after maturity, falling while still attached to pedicel, erect, stramineous, straight, linear-oblong, obtusely 3-sided compressed, 10–25 × 2.4–3.3 mm, ± bilocular, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose;

septum 1–1.4 mm wide;

sessile or subsessile.

stiffly erect, becoming brownish stramineous then blackish, 15–25 × 8–13 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous.

14–23.

= 22.