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.

2–8 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets (1 or)3 or 5, blades obovate to rhombic or elliptic, 6–25 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces densely strigose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–7-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, 1–3 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1.2–4 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.

20–28 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 10–14 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 1.8–5.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or greenish white, often tinged faintly purplish, keel tip 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), red-purple to stramineous, incurved, ovoid-acuminate, inflated, 17–30(–32) × 10–23 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, hirsute, hairs long, lustrous.

4–12.

28–38.

= 24.