Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

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.

reduced to phyllodia, 0.4–2.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 3–6 mm, membranous;

phyllodia oblanceolate or spatulate, 4–25 mm, apex acute or apiculate, surfaces strigose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–4-flowered;

axis 0–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.4–1.8 mm.

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

erect or ascending, (0.5–)1–3 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

0.5–1.8 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.

10.6–12 mm;

calyx 4.5–7 mm, prominently veined in fruit, strigose, tube 3–4.1 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.3–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7–9.6 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, green or red-mottled becoming stramineous or brown, slightly curved, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 6–13(–15) × 2–5 mm, papery, glabrous or glabrate;

sessile.

4–12.

11–14.

= 24.