Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, villosulous.

erect or ascending, sparsely villosulous, often glabrous basally.

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 connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (3–)4–12 mm, submembranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)17–29(or 31), blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, (4–)7–32 mm, apex obtuse, subacute, truncate and apiculate, or retuse, surfaces villosulous, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

8–16-flowered;

axis 1.5–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles usually 2.

20–60(–65)-flowered, flowers ascending becoming loosely declined or nodding;

axis (4.5–)6–22(–25) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4.5–12 cm.

erect, (4–)7–17 cm.

1.5–3.5 mm.

1.2–4 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.

15.3–18(–19) mm;

calyx cylindric or deeply campanulate, (5.5–)8.7–10.3 mm, villosulous, tube 5.9–8.4 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1.6–3.7 mm;

corolla pale cream, white, or whitish;

keel 13.1–14.7 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.

spreading or loosely pendulous, stramineous, bicarinate, obliquely elliptic, semielliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, bladdery-inflated, laterally compressed, (21–)25–45 × (6–)8–15.5 mm, thin becoming papery, translucent, lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

gynophore 3–11 mm, densely villosulous.

24–30.

11–18.

= 22.

= 22.