Flora of North America species comparison

red-brown to tan, distally red or pale-hairy, becoming gray-brown, distally glabrous or sparsely pale-hairy.

blade oblong to elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5-8 cm, leathery, base abruptly and broadly cuneate or rounded, margins strongly to moderately revolute, apex acute to broadly rounded, occasionally notched;

surfaces abaxially densely orange-hairy, becoming sparsely so on veins, adaxially sparsely orange-hairy, becoming glabrous and often glaucous.

on previous year's growth;

peduncle slender, 2-3.5 cm, tomentose;

bracteoles 1-2, basal, usually ovate-triangular, rarely more than 2-3 mm, hairy.

1-3 per node, fragrant, large;

sepals triangular, 8-10 mm, abaxially orange-puberulent;

outer petals spreading, white or cream, narrowly oblong to obovate, 2.5-6 cm, abaxially puberulent on veins;

inner petals incurved, white, yellowish white, rarely pink or cherry red, mostly with deep maroon to purple corrugate zone, lance-hastate, 1/3-1/2 length of outer petals, fleshier, base saccate, margins revolute;

pistils 3-8.

yellow-green, 4-7 cm.

dark to pale brown, lustrous, 1-2 cm.

=18.