Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

erect, with several elongated internodes, 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.

5–10 cm;

stipules 7–11 mm, membranous or thinly herbaceous distally;

leaflet blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 18–34 mm, apex rounded to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

densely 1–11-flowered;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(12–)16–30(–35)-flowered;

axis 3–16 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

stiffly erect, (3–)4–18(–20) cm, proximal peduncle and raceme much shorter than stem.

0.3–1.7 mm.

1–2.4 mm, slightly longer in fruit.

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.

12–15 mm;

calyx 4.3–6.7 mm, black-strigose, tube 3.5–4.5(–4.8) mm, lobes linear-lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm;

keel (7–)7.7–9.1 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.

brownish stramineous, (6–)9–15 × 3.5–6.5 mm, papery-membranous, minutely strigose;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 1.2–2.3 mm;

gynophore 0.4–0.6 mm.

4–12.

= 24.