Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

single, erect or prostrate to ascending, 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.

(2–)3–8 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, papery;

leaflets 7–13, blades broadly or narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, (3–)5–15 mm, apex obtuse, shallowly emarginate, or subacute, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–10-flowered, flowers loosely ascending or in age declined;

axis (1–)1.5–3.5(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2, minute when present.

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

ascending, 2–5 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–2 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.

7.8–10.4 mm;

calyx often purplish, campanulate, 4–4.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–3.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 5.9–6.6 mm, apex blunt.

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.

horizontal or declined, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, plumply ovoid or broadly oblong-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, subterete, (13–)15–25 × 11–15 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, somewhat lustrous, sparsely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 1–2.5 mm wide;

gynophore to 2 mm.

4–12.

19–24.

= 24.

= 22.