Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

erect or ascending, usually shorter than longest peduncles, sparsely strigulose.

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.

4–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–7 mm, scarious;

leaflets 5–15, blades filiform to linear or narrowly elliptic, 2–23 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–34-flowered;

axis 3–25 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

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

erect, 4–25 cm, together with racemes longer than stems, much surpassing subtending leaves.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.3–2 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.

7–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5–7.5 mm, white-pilose, tube 3–4 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla marcescent, pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 5.7–7 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-spreading, stramineous, slightly incurved, ovoid to ellipsoid, obcompressed, 5.5–8 × 2.3–3.4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming papery, strigulose.

4–12.

4–6.

= 24.