Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

erect to ascending, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, strigulose-pilosulous.

mostly reduced to phyllodia, few with leaflets, 0.8–10 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing throughout, 2–7 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflets 0(or 3–5), blades (phyllodia) oblanceolate to linear, 4–30 mm, apex acute, mucronate, or spinulose, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet often confluent with rachis.

7–13(–16) cm;

stipules 4–9 mm, papery at proximal nodes, membranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (13–)17–27, blades obovate, oblong, lanceolate-oblong, or broadly elliptic, 6–26 mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces strigulose-pilosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(4–)7–22-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis (2–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect or ascending, outer ones often prostrate in fruit, 0.4–9 cm.

erect, (4–)10–18 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–5 mm.

5.7–9.5 mm;

calyx 2.6–5 mm, strigose, tube 1.9–3.4 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–2.5 mm;

corolla pink purplish to ochroleucous or whitish;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 4–6 mm.

15.5–22 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 6.9–10.3 mm, pilosulous, tube 5.2–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.6–2.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, keel immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11–13.1 mm.

erect, pale green tinged purple, with red-mottle, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or slightly curved, lanceoloid to lanceoloid-oblong, 2-sided, laterally compressed, 4–13 × 1.5–3.3 mm, papery, usually strigose, rarely glabrous;

sessile.

erect, brown-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or oblong-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 13–18 × 4–6 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

sessile.

4–12.

14–18.

= 24.