Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, villosulous.

erect or ascending, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, glabrous or glabrate.

2–7 cm;

stipules 2–4.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (9 or)11–17(or 19), blades obovate-cuneate or oblong-oblanceolate, (4–)6–16 mm, apex truncate-retuse to obtuse, surfaces villosulous.

(4.5–)7–17 cm;

stipules 0.5–2.5 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous and membranous-margined at distal nodes;

leaflet blades narrowly oblong, lanceolate-elliptic, narrowly oval, or sublinear, (3–)6–26 mm, apex retuse to obtuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose-pilosulous or, sometimes, glabrous adaxially or ciliate.

8–16-flowered;

axis 1.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles usually 2.

(12–)15–40-flowered;

axis 5–15(–18) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4.5–12 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 6–15 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

1.5–3.5 mm.

0.6–3 mm.

16.6–20 mm;

calyx 9–11.5 mm, densely villosulous, tube 6.9–8.5 mm, not swollen or gibbous proximally, marcescent, lobes triangular, 1.4–3 mm;

corolla whitish, keel tip faintly maculate;

keel 12–13.4 mm.

(13.5–)14.4–18.8 mm;

calyx (5.7–)6–8.3 mm, strigulose, tube (4.7–)5–6.3 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 1–2.3 mm;

corolla banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12.5–15 mm.

spreading or pendulous, stramineous, lunate- or hamate-incurved, laterally falcately oblong, laterally compressed, 18–30 × (4–)5–7 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, densely villosulous;

stipe 5–8 mm.

brownish stramineous, strongly incurved, 23–31 × 4.5–6 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

septum 0.8–1 mm wide.

24–30.

= 22.