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Comprehensive Description

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Parosela dispansa Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial, shrubby at the base; stem diffusely branched, chestnut-brown, glabrous; leaves 1.5-3 cm. long, spreading; stipules minute, subulate; rachis glabrous, sparingly and minutely glandular-dotted; stipels subulate-conic, fleshy, minute; leaflets 9-13, elliptic, 3-5 mm. long, retuse, glabrous and striate on both sides, minutely glandular-punctate beneath; racemes short-peduncled, 1-2 cm. long; bracts ovate, acute, glabrous, glandular-dotted, denticulate on the margins; calyx-tube turbinate, nearly 2 mm. long, strongly 10-angled, glabrous, minutely glandular in the intervals; upper 4 teeth ovate, 1 mm. long, denticulate-ciliolate, the lowest one lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla violet or rose-purple; blade of the banner rounded-reniform, 2 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, the claw 1.5 mm. long; blades of the wings and keel-petals 4 mm. long, the claws 1-1.5 mm. long; pod glabrous, with a few gland-dots.
Type collected in the mountains near Talpa, Jalisco, March 7, 1897, E. W. Nelson -1034 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 327061).
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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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