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.

blade ascending-spreading, upswept, linear-elliptic to narrowly spatulate or linear-oblanceolate, 5-15(-20) cm, leathery, base broadly to narrowly cuneate or attenuate, margins obscurely to very revolute, apex acute to obtuse, rounded, or rarely notched;

surfaces abaxially glabrate, raised-reticulate, adaxially glabrate.

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.

from axils along new shoots, solitary flowers;

peduncle slender, 2-4 cm, glabrate;

bracteoles 1-2, often suprabasal, lance-linear, to 10 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.

nodding, fragrant;

perianth 3(-6)-merous;

sepals elliptic to ovate, 0.5-1 cm, glabrescent;

outer petals spreading, white or cream, rarely pink or striped with red or pink, elliptic, oblong, or obovate, 3-8 cm, abaxially glabrate;

inner petals erect, maroon to cherry red or white, oblong to lanceolate, to 1/2 length of outer petals, base broad, saccate, corrugate zone adaxially purple, apex spreading;

pistils 2-7(-12).

yellow-green, 4-7 cm.

yellow-green, 4-10 cm.

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

dark brown, lustrous, 1-2 cm.

=18.

=18.