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Comprehensive Description

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Parosela oculata Rydberg, sp. nov
A low shrub; branches terete, strigose; leaves 4-5 cm. long, spreading; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; rachis sparingly strigose; stipels gland-like; leaflets 25-37, oblong, glabrous, about 5 mm. long, glandular-dotted beneath, the glands along the margins longer; racemes dense, 3-S cm. long; bracts glabrous, glandular-dotted, lanceolate; calyx-tube turbinate, 2 mm. long, strongly 10-ribbed, with inconspicuous glands in the intervals; lobes lanceolate, acute, 1.5 mm. long; corolla purplish-blue, except a cream-colored, glandular-dotted eye on the banner; blade of the banner reniform, 2.5 mm. long, fully 3 mm. wide, the claw 1.5 mm. long; blades of the wings 3 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 6 mm. long, the claws of both 1 mm. long; pod unknown.
Tvpe collected at Cerralvo, Lower California, April 19, 1911, Rose 168S4 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 638901).
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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