Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

prostrate or decumbent, sparsely 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.

1.5–10.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, mostly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets 9–19, blades obovate, oblong-oblanceolate to -obovate, obcordate, suborbiculate, or elliptic, 2–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(1 or)2–10-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis (0–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

ascending, 1–7.5 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–3.5 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.

5.5–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–4.3 mm, strigulose, hair white or partly black, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla white, banner with pink veins;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex bluntly 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.

ascending, spreading, or loosely declined, green, purplish, or purple- or red-mottled becoming brownish or stramineous, incurved, narrowly oblanceoloid or obliquely semi-ovoid, ± inflated, ± 3-sided compressed, (5–)6–26 × 2.7–5 mm, thin becoming papery, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

gynophore conical, short.

4–12.

6–15.

= 24.