Flora of North America species comparison

erect, with several elongated internodes, strigulose.

erect to ascending, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, strigulose-pilosulous.

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.

7–13(–16) cm;

stipules 4–9 mm, papery at proximal nodes, membranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (13–)17–27, blades obovate, oblong, lanceolate-oblong, or broadly elliptic, 6–26 mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces strigulose-pilosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(12–)16–30(–35)-flowered;

axis 3–16 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(4–)7–22-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis (2–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, (4–)10–18 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

1–2.4 mm, slightly longer in fruit.

1–5 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.

15.5–22 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 6.9–10.3 mm, pilosulous, tube 5.2–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.6–2.8 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, keel immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11–13.1 mm.

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.

erect, brown-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or oblong-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 13–18 × 4–6 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

sessile.

14–18.