Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

clustered, ascending to erect, strigose.

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.

1.3–4.8 cm;

stipules 2–4 mm;

leaflets 5–13, blades lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, 2–8 mm, margins involute and not ciliate, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis 0.2–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

reclined in fruit, 0.8–4.5 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.8–1.5 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.

7.2–8 mm;

calyx 3.3–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.2–2.5 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips white.

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.

mottled, straight or nearly so, ovoid, 11–18 × 8–12 mm, membranous, opaque, strigose.

4–12.

10.

= 24.