Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few-branched, eglandular, strigulose.

0.8–3 cm;

leaflets 11–17, blades obovate to oblanceolate, (1.5–)2–5 mm, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, gland-dotted abaxially.

moderately densely flowered;

axis (0.5–)1–2.7 cm;

bracts 1.8–2.5 mm.

(1–)1.5–3.5 cm.

0.2–0.4 mm.

nodding;

calyx 4.2–5 mm, hirsutulous, tube 1.7–2.2 mm, rib intervals each with 4 or 5 glands, lobes lanceolate-elliptic, ± unequal;

corolla bicolored;

banner pale, lilac near margin, oblong-cordate to reniform, 2.6–3.3 mm; epistemonous petals lilac-striped proximally, whitish distally;

wings obliquely ovate, 2.6–3 × 1.3–1.8 mm;

keel ovate or obovate, 3.6–4.1 × 2.4–2.7 mm;

stamens 4.5–5.2 mm;

filaments distinct to 1.6–1.9 mm;

anthers 0.5–0.8 mm.

2 mm.

obliquely obovoid, ca. 3 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally.

orcuttii is similar to M. calycosa, differing principally in the smaller flowers.

orcuttii is confined to the Santa Rosa Mountains of south-central California and northern Baja California.; variety campanea Barneby is distributed in southern Baja California and northern Baja California Sur.