Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

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.

1–6 cm;

stipules 3–7 mm;

leaflets 3–11, blades obovate to oblanceolate or orbiculate, 1.5–8 mm, apex round to obtuse or acute, surfaces strigose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–10-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

ascending, 0.4–3 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

ascending, 1–2 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.

10–15.5(–17.5) mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.9 mm, strigose, tube 4.1–6.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.4–1.7 mm;

corolla usually white or ochroleucous, sometimes fading yellowish, suffused with purple, sometimes purple, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (9–)10–12.5 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.

ascending, green, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or lanceoloid-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, (8–)11–19 × 3–8 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, thinly fleshy becoming papery, sometimes incipiently alveolate-spongy, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigose.

4–12.

18–33.

= 24.