Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

diffuse, prostrate, ascending, or erect, sparsely villosulous.

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–)4–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 3–14 mm, membranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (21 or)23–43, blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, oblong-obovate, narrowly to broadly oblong, or oblanceolate, (2–)3.5–25(–28) mm, apex retuse, emarginate, obtuse, or obtuse and apiculate, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so or glabrous adaxially, rarely puberulent.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(15–)20–90(–125)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4(–5) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6–15(–18) cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.8–5.5(–7) 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.

(10–)11–15 mm;

calyx campanulate or ovoid-campanulate, gibbous abaxially, (5.5–)5.8–8.2(–9) mm, sparsely to densely villosulous or loosely strigulose, tube (4–)4.3–5.7(–5.9) mm, lobes broadly subulate or triangular, (1.1–)1.3–3(–3.1) mm;

corolla greenish white or cream;

keel (9.7–)10.5–14 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.

loosely spreading, ascending, or declined, pale green or minutely purple-dotted, becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or semi-ovoid, semi-obovoid, or semi ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, (20–)25–55(–60) × 15–27 mm, thin becoming papery, lustrous, glabrous or villosulous;

sessile.

4–12.

(14–)16–38.

= 24.

= 22.