Flora of North America species comparison

3–30 cm.

2-ranked, gradually reduced toward ends of flowering stems;

blade ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 1–3.5 × 0.6–1 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrid, apex acute, glabrous.

± conduplicate;

blade oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 1–3.5 × 0.3–0.8 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins ciliolate, glabrous.

sessile in axils of distal leaves of flowering stems, composed of pairs of sessile cymes (sometimes reduced to single cymes).

sessile or nearly sessile, subtended by 0–2 leaves that resemble spathaceous bracts, these leaves.

bisexual and pistillate, odorless, subsessile;

petals inconspicuous, white, lanceolate, 3–6 mm;

stamens 0–6, long-exserted;

filaments glabrous;

ovary 2-locular, stigma penicillate.

pedicellate;

pedicels 0.8–1.2 cm, glabrous or nearly so;

sepals strongly keeled, 0.4–0.5 mm, shortly, densely pubescent on keel;

petals bright pink to rose, ovate, 0.5–0.7 cm;

stamens 6;

filaments bearded.

2-locular.

3-locular, 2 mm.

1 mm.

1.5 mm.

= 24.