Flora of North America species comparison

not appressed to inflorescences at flowering;

blade linear-lanceolate, 7–35 cm × 5–15 mm.

green, 11.8–34 cm;

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

2–7(–11), more than 1 cm apart, opening nearly simultaneously, magenta, pink, to white, fragrant;

dorsal sepal strongly spreading to straight, obovate to oblanceolate, 14–25 × 5–8 mm, apex acuminate or acute;

lateral sepals strongly spreading to straight, ovate to broadly lanceolate, slightly falcate, 15–22 × 8–10 mm, apex acuminate to apiculate;

petals slightly falcate to straight, oblong to obpandurate, 11–20 × 5–8 mm, apex obtuse;

lip 10–17 mm, middle lobe with dilated apex triangular, broadly rounded, 5–12 mm wide, apex acute or retuse;

column 8.5–13 × 1.5–2 mm, distal end 5–8.5 mm wide;

rostellum present;

stigma typically flat against column surface.

elongate, forked, 18–29 mm.

= 120.