Dalea pogonathera A. Gray

Parosela pogonathera (A. Gray) Vail, Trans. N. Y Acad. Sci. 14: 34. 1894.
Dalea pogonathera A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4: 31. 1849.
A perennial, with a woody root and short caudex; stems many, ascending or erect, 1-2 dm., seldom 3 dm. high, glabrous, slender; leaves spreading, 1-2 cm. long; stipules subulatesetaceous, 2-3 mm. long; raehis slightly margined, glabrous, glandular-dotted; stipels glandlike; leaflets 5-7, linear-oblong or linear-cuneate, truncate or retuse at the apex, glabrous, glandular-dotted beneath, bluish-green; peduncles opposite the leaves, 1-2.5 cm. long; spikes 2-6 cm. long, rather dense; bracts broadly ovate, abruptly short-acuminate, glabrous, scariousmargined, bluish-green and glandular-dotted on the back, persistent; calyx-tube broadly turbinate, 3 mm. long, 10-ribbed, silky, not conspicuously glandular-dotted; lobes filiform from a triangular base, silky-plumose, 4 mm. long; corolla purple; blade of the banner rounded reniform, 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, the claw 3 mm. long; wings inserted near the middle of the staminal tube, the keel-petals higher up, the blades of the former 2.5-3 mm. long, the claws 1 mm. long; blades of the keel-petals similar but with a comparatively smaller basal lobe, 4—4.5 mm. long; pod densely-villous above.
Type locality: Monterey. Mexico.
Distribution: Texas to Arizona, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, and Tamaulipas.

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