Flora of North America species comparison

not appressed to inflorescences at flowering;

blade linear, lanceolate, or seldom elliptic-lanceolate, 2–50 cm × 2–35(–50) mm, margins slightly to strongly curled transversely.

not appressed to inflorescences at flowering;

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

green or slightly purple at base, becoming entirely green after flowering, 4–135 cm;

floral bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subulate, 3–30 mm.

green, 11.8–34 cm;

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

1–25, opening sequentially, magenta, pink, to white, faintly fragrant;

dorsal sepal oblanceolate, 15–31 × 5–18 mm, apex acuminate;

lateral sepals occasionally reflexed distally, ovate to lanceolate, slightly falcate, 13–26 × 5–16 mm, apex apiculate to acuminate;

petals obpandurate to seldom elliptic, slightly falcate, 15–28 × 4–14 mm, apex obtuse;

lip 11–23 mm, middle lobe with dilated end typically anvil-shaped, seldom triangular, 5.5–21 mm wide;

column 12–25 × 1–2 mm, distal end 4.5–10 mm wide;

rostellum present or absent;

stigma at angle to column surface.

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.

ovoid to ellipsoid, 13–30 × 5–10 mm.

globose to elongate, not forked, 8–31 mm.

elongate, forked, 18–29 mm.

= 26, 40, 42.

= 120.