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.

2–15(–17) cm;

stipules 3–11 mm, firm becoming papery;

leaflets (3 or)5–19, blades elliptic to oblong, 3–35 mm, apex acute, surfaces strigose, hairs gray or silvery.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(1–)3–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

erect or incurved, 1–13(–14) cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1.2–3 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.

(18–)22–27 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10.5–16(–17) mm, pilose-villous, tube (7–)8–12(–13) mm, lobes subulate to narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–5.7 mm;

corolla usually ochroleucous, faintly to strongly suffused with purple, rarely pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 18–22 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 (humistrate), brown, incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-ovoid, obcompressed, 15–40 × 5–10(–12) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, villous-hirsute, surface visible through long, shining hairs.

4–12.

26–36.

= 24.