Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

decumbent or ascending, hirsute or hirsutulous.

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–)4–14 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (9–)15–27, blades broadly ovate, obcordate, obovate to broadly oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–15 mm, apex usually obtuse, rarely acute, surfaces hirsutulous.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

4–9-flowered, flowers loosely ascending;

axis 1–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved-ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

2.5–4 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.

15–22 mm;

calyx usually broadly campanulate, sometimes subcylindric, 9–12 mm, hirsute, tube 5–7 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm;

corolla white, veins and keel tip pink;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 12.4–16.2 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 or spreading, brownish, incurved through 0.2–0.5(–1) spiral, lunately lanceoloid, strongly obcompressed, (20–)25–30 × 6–8 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, densely hirsutulous.

4–12.

26–30.

= 24.