Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

prostrate, 3–12 cm, (0–)1–8 cm underground, pilosulous.

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 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, distinct and submembranous at distal nodes, 1–2.5 mm;

leaflets 7–19, blades oval to obovate, 1–5 mm, apex retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–6-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 0.3–2.2 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1.4–2.5 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.

6.8–8.5 mm;

calyx purplish, campanulate, 3.5–4.2 mm, pilosulous, tube 2.3–3 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.4 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly suffused with pink or purple;

banner abruptly recurved through 80°;

keel 4.8–5 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and beaklike.

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 to declined, purple-mottled, ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 10–23 × 8–14 mm, thin, translucent, strigose;

gynophore 0.1–0.8 mm.

4–12.

18–20.

= 24.