Flora of North America species comparison

many, decumbent, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

diffuse, prostrate, ascending, or erect, sparsely villosulous.

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.

(2.5–)4–17 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 3–14 mm, membranous; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (21 or)23–43, blades obovate, obovate-cuneate, oblong-obovate, narrowly to broadly oblong, or oblanceolate, (2–)3.5–25(–28) mm, apex retuse, emarginate, obtuse, or obtuse and apiculate, surfaces villosulous, sometimes sparsely so or glabrous adaxially, rarely puberulent.

5–7-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(15–)20–90(–125)-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4(–5) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

reclined in fruit, 2–6 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (4–)6–15(–18) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.8–5.5(–7) 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.

(10–)11–15 mm;

calyx campanulate or ovoid-campanulate, gibbous abaxially, (5.5–)5.8–8.2(–9) mm, sparsely to densely villosulous or loosely strigulose, tube (4–)4.3–5.7(–5.9) mm, lobes broadly subulate or triangular, (1.1–)1.3–3(–3.1) mm;

corolla greenish white or cream;

keel (9.7–)10.5–14 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.

loosely spreading, ascending, or declined, pale green or minutely purple-dotted, becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or semi-ovoid, semi-obovoid, or semi ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, (20–)25–55(–60) × 15–27 mm, thin becoming papery, lustrous, glabrous or villosulous;

sessile.

26–28.

(14–)16–38.

= 22.