Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

decumbent proximally, erect distally, 2–10 cm underground, often fistulose, sparsely strigulose.

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.

5–22 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 3–9 mm;

leaflets 13–21, blades ovate to obovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, 4–24 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose along veins abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(15–)20–40-flowered;

axis (4–)10–16 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

(4–)9–23 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.7–3.5 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.

(11–)14–18 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, strigose, tube 4–5 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.5–0.9(–1.2) mm;

corolla ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 25°.

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, ovoid to ellipsoid, obcompressed, inflated (turgid), 12–18 × 8–10(–12) mm, papery, glabrous;

septum to 0.2 mm wide;

stipe slender, 7–15 mm.

4–12.

= 24.