Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

ascending-erect, 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.

mostly clustered at stem base, 2.5–10 cm;

stipules mostly all connate, 2–4.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (9 or)11–15(–19), blades narrowly oblong-elliptic, linear-oblong, or oblong-obovate, (1–)2–8 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

terminal leaflet jointed to rachis.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–8-flowered, flowers horizontal or nodding;

axis (0.5–)1–8(–11) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5(–2) mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 3–12(–15) cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–4 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.

9.5–13.2 mm;

calyx 5–8.9 mm, strigulose, tube 3.6–6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.4–2.9 mm;

corolla whitish or tinged with lavender, keel tip maculate;

keel 7.3–10.2 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.

pendulous, often humistrate, brightly red-mottled, decurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, inversely boat-shaped, ± 3-sided compressed, ventral suture convex in profile or at least beak declined from body, 13–22 × 4–6.5 mm, partly bilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose;

septum incomplete, to 0.7 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–3.5 mm.

4–12.

(14–)17–29.

= 24.