Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

few, erect or ascending, strigulose, cinereous.

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.

4.5–8.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–11, blades lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 8–16 mm, apex obtuse or truncate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

4–7-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

ascending or incurved, 1.5–2 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

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.

6–6.3 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4 mm, strigulose, tube 2.1–2.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2 mm;

corolla whitish faintly lined pink;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 4.3–4.4 mm, apex bluntly deltate, obscurely beaklike.

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.

spreading to declined, pale green and faintly brown-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, slightly obcompressed, 20–27 × 11–15 mm, thin, lustrous, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 3–3.5 mm wide.

4–12.

28–30.

= 24.