Flora of North America species comparison

persistent, erect, monomorphic, twisted through 90–270°, yellowish green, often suffused with red, distally enlarging into globose head, firm, surfaces glabrous;

orifice round, facing ground, not covered by hood;

hood arising adaxially on rim of orifice, pendulous, fishtail-shaped, flattened or slightly twisted, 2-lobed, lobes widely divergent laterally from pitcher axis, yellowish green to reddish, base narrowed to neck, apex acute to rounded.

absent.

1, slightly longer to much longer than pitchers;

bracts usually 9, alternate along scape, clasping, erect or spreading, lanceolate, apex acute.

odorless;

sepals persistent, lance-ovate to oblanceolate, margins entire, apex acute;

petals deciduous, touching, forming curtain surrounding stamens and pistil, pendulous, ovate, each notched beyond middle (distally) so that indentations of adjacent petals align forming 5 holes in corolla, margins entire, apex acuminate;

stamens 15, distinct;

filaments uniform in length;

anthers basifixed;

ovary turbinate, shallowly 10-lobed, apex depressed;

style terminal, arising from depressed apex of ovary, terminating in 5 radially diverging, filiform arms covered with stigmatic cells laterally.

obconic, finely tuberculate, acropetally dehiscent.

ca. 1000, long-clavate, not keeled, long-papillate.

= 15.