Dalea capitata var. quinqueflora (Brandegee) Barneby

Parosela quinqueflora (Brand.) Rydberg
Dalea quinqueflora Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: ISO. 1911.
A low shrub; stem much branched; branches flexuose, glabrous; leaves 1 cm. long or less; stipules minute, subulate; petiole about 2 mm. long; rachis conspicuously glandular-dotted; stipels gland-like; leaflets 5-7, cuneate-oblong, about 3 mm. long, usually folded, conspicuously glandular-dotted; peduncles 1 cm. long or less, terminating the branches; spikes short and head-like, 3-7-flowered; bracts ovate, brown, involute, persistent; calyx-tube campanulate, 3 mm. long, silky; lobes triangular, acute, much shorter than the tube; corolla yellow; blade of the banner cordate, 4 mm. long, the claw 3 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted near the middle of the staminal tube, the blades obliquely obovate, with a rather large basal lobe, those of the wings 4 mm. long, those of the keel 5 mm. long, broader, and united along the lower edge, the claws 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Buena Vista, San Luis Potosi.
Distribution: San Luis Potosi.