Flora of North America species comparison

blade linear, 3–15 cm × 3–9 mm at flowering, later elongating to 6–41 cm.

dark purple, becoming green after flowering, 17–33(–50) cm;

floral bracts ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or subulate, 3–8 mm.

2–15, opening nearly simultaneously, crimson, magenta, to rarely light pink, strongly fragrant to pungent;

dorsal sepal obovate to oblanceolate, 9–17 × 5–8 mm, apex acuminate;

lateral sepals reflexed only at tip or straight, ovate to lanceolate, slightly falcate to straight, 10–13.5 × 6–9 mm;

petals pandurate, rarely obovate, 8–14 × 4–8 mm, apex obtuse;

lip 7–12 mm, middle lobe with dilated apex triangular, rounded to truncate, 7–13 mm wide;

column 5.5–7.5 × 1–2 mm, distal end 5–7 mm wide;

rostellum present. Capsules ellipsoid to obconic, 13–22 × 4–7 mm.

elongate, forked, 18–40 mm.

= 40, 42.