Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

erect or ascending, current season stems 3–10 cm underground, strigulose or villosulous.

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.

3–8 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate-cuneate, 4–12 mm, apex obtuse, retuse, or obcordate, surfaces strigulose or villosulous abaxially, strigose to glabrescent adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

9–15-flowered;

axis 3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or divaricate-ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–1.5 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.

14–17 mm;

calyx 5–6.5 mm, strigose, tube 5–6 mm, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.5–0.9 mm;

corolla keel 12–13 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.

pale green sometimes mottled becoming stramineous, coiled through 1.5–2 spirals into a closed ring, 3.5–4 mm wide, scarcely fleshy becoming stiffly papery, sparsely villous;

stipe 10–15 mm.

4–12.

= 24.