Flora of North America species comparison

erect and incurved-ascending, strigulose.

(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 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets (1 or)3 or 5, blades obovate to rhombic or elliptic, 6–25 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces densely strigose.

(10–)15–25(–30)-flowered;

axis (2.5–)6–18(–22) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–7-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, 1–3 cm.

0.8–1.8 mm.

1.2–4 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.

20–28 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 10–14 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 1.8–5.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or greenish white, often tinged faintly purplish, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 18–22 mm.

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.

ascending (humistrate), red-purple to stramineous, incurved, ovoid-acuminate, inflated, 17–30(–32) × 10–23 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, hirsute, hairs long, lustrous.

7–13.

28–38.

= 22.