Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

decumbent to ascending or spreading, villous-tomentulose or white-pannose.

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.

4–10 cm;

stipules 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets 21–29, blades ovate, obovate, oval, or oblong-elliptic, 2.5–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely 12–30-flowered;

axis 2.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

ascending, drooping or humistrate in fruit, 4–14 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–1.5 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.

14.2–17.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 7.5–9 mm, villous, tube 5.2–6.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.2–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

keel 10.2–12.9 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 but appearing otherwise when humistrate, green-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, lanceoloid-oblong, semi-ellipsoid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 8–16 × 3.2–5.5 mm, leathery, villous-tomentulose;

septum 1.1–1.8 mm wide;

stipe 4–8.5 mm, pubescent.

4–12.

12–16.

= 24.