Flora of North America species comparison

usually obscured by stipules, or internodes to 2 cm, villous to villous-tomentose.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

1–12(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)3–15 mm, membranous;

leaflets (3 or)5–17(–21), blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, elliptic to oblanceolate, or rhombic-elliptic, 2–14(–20) mm, apex usually acute, subacute, acuminate, or obtuse, rarely truncate-emarginate, surfaces densely villous.

mostly in sub-basal cluster, (6–)10–30 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 3–10(–11) mm, scarious throughout;

leaflets (9–)13–25(–31), blades linear-oblong, linear-elliptic, lanceolate, or subfiliform, 3–23 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes continuous with rachis.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–2(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

7–20-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (3–)4–13(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending or erect, decumbent in fruit, 1.5–10.5 cm.

erect, sometimes divergent in fruit, 5–33 cm, together with racemes longer than stems.

1–5 mm.

1–4.5 mm.

19–25(–27) mm;

calyx cylindric, cylindro-campanulate, or campanulate, (5.5–)6–16(–19) mm, villous-pilose, tube (4–)4.5–12(–13.6) mm, lobes subulate, 1–6(–7) mm;

corolla white, cream, purple, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–21.2(–22.5) mm.

15–25.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, cylindric, or subcylindric, 7–12 mm, strigulose-pilosulous, tube 4.9–9.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–3(–4) mm;

corolla whitish with keel tip purple, sometimes banner and wings also purple-tipped, sometimes purple throughout;

banner recurved through 30–45°, oblanceolate or broadly rhombic-oblanceolate, 16–25.5 mm, apex emarginate;

keel 11.6–17.5 mm.

initially ascending (humistrate), brownish, not mottled or spotted, incurved, ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 7–26(–30) × 3.5–11(–13) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, mostly shaggy-villous, sometimes tomentose or villous-hirsute, hairs 1.6–4(–5) mm, often concealing surface;

sessile or subsessile, or gynophore 0.5+ mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, oblong-ellipsoid to narrowly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 12–25 × 4.3–8 mm, sub-bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous or strigulose;

septum to 1.4 mm wide;

sessile.

14–38(–46).

15–30.