Flora of North America species comparison

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.

3–20 cm;

stipules 5–15 mm;

leaflets 5–11(or 13), blades lanceolate to elliptic or obovate, 6–25 mm, apex acute, surfaces densely strigose.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(4 or)5–8-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

recurved in fruit, 1.5–11 cm.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1.2–4 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.

17.5–23 mm;

calyx cylindric, (8.5–)9.5–14 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 7–11 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 1–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or greenish white, often tinged faintly purplish, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 35–45°;

keel (14–)15–18.5 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 (humistrate in fruit), reddish to stramineous, incurved, plumply ovoid, inflated, moderately obcompressed, (15–)17–23 × 10–15 mm, unilocular, leathery, hirsute, hairs lustrous, to 2+ mm.

4–12.

24–38.

= 24.