Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

aerial tips prostrate or ascending, nodes short, strigulose-pilosulous and ashy gray.

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.

1.5–7(–8) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets mostly crowded, blades folded or involute, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely (1–)3–6-flowered, (0–)1–10(–15) mm (in fruit);

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

procumbent (in fruit), 1–3(–6.5) cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm, (1–2 mm in fruit).

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.

10.7–12.5 mm;

calyx 5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, keel apex maculate, banner veined and suffused with lilac;

keel 9–10 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.

slightly incurved, 6.5–11.5 × 3–3.5 mm, thinly submembranous, strigulose.

4–12.

6–9.

= 24.