Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

decumbent and ascending, woolly-tomentulose.

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.

(2.5–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 2–5.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflet blades oblong-oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-ovate, (3–)6–12(–22) mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces white-pannose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, (3–)5–13 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.8–3 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.

12.5–16 mm;

calyx 6.6–7.9 mm, white-tomentulose, tube 4.1–4.8 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.3–3.5 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, concolorous, drying yellowish;

keel (9–)9.3–12 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 or purplish becoming stramineous, 16–26 × (9–)13–23 mm, papery, somewhat translucent, finely tomentulose.

4–12.

= 24.