Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

ascending to erect or spreading-decumbent, diffuse, radiating, 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.

2–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–15, blades oblong to ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 2–14 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, mucronate, or acute, surfaces villosulous.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–12-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.4–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved, 1–4 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.5–2 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.

8.8–12.2 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.8–6.3 mm, villosulous, tube 2.8–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple or ochroleucous;

banner incurved through 90–110°;

keel 7.3–8.7 mm, apex bluntly triangular or deltate.

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.

deciduous from receptacle, spreading-declined, green or reddish becoming stramineous, incurved through 0.25–0.5 spiral, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, inflated, 12–20 × 4–8(–9) mm, thin becoming papery, shaggy-pilose, hairs lustrous, 1–2 mm.

4–12.

9–18.

= 24.