Flora of North America species comparison

many, decumbent, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

ascending to erect, villous.

3–7 cm;

stipules 2.5–5 mm, membranous or membranous-margined;

leaflets 13–25(–29), blades oblanceolate or obovate-cuneate, 6–16 mm, apex retuse or apiculate, surfaces glabrous (except midrib sparsely strigose) abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(6–)9–17 cm;

stipules reflexed, connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 10–22 mm, foliose becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, blades broadly lanceolate- or ovate-oblong or elliptic, 15–60 mm, thin, pinnately veined, apex obtuse, surfaces sparsely villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

5–7-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

10–25(–30)-flowered;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–9 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 2.

reclined in fruit, 2–6 cm.

erect, (3.5–)5–14(–19) cm, equaling or shorter than subtending leaf, sometimes exceeding proximal ones, together with racemes usually not longer than distalmost leaves.

1.5–5 mm.

3–9 mm.

16–23 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 9.5–11 mm, strigulose, tube 5.5–6.5 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 3.5–4.5 mm;

corolla whitish;

keel 12–13 mm.

8–13(–14.2) mm;

calyx campanulate, (4.5–)4.9–5.8 mm, glabrous, tube (4.3–)4.9–5.8 mm, lobes deltate (often reduced to shallow crenulations), 0.2–0.7 mm, ciliate;

corolla white or cream, keel 10.3–12.7 mm.

ascending (humistrate), stramineous, slightly incurved, obliquely oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 20–40 × (9–)11–19 mm, bilocular, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous;

septum 3–4 mm wide;

stipe 5–20 mm.

stramineous, straight, obliquely ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–28 × 6.5–9.5 mm, papery, translucent, glabrous;

stipe 4.5–7 mm.

26–28.

6–9.

= 16.