Flora of North America species comparison

6–10 cm diam.

few, basal;

blade liguliform, fleshy, parallel-veined, margins entire, apex tapering.

6–8, appearing after flowering, 50 × 3–5 cm.

hollow.

to 1 m. Inflorescences 2–4-flowered;

bracts 5 cm.

umbellate, bracteate;

bracts 2, scarious.

spreading to slightly drooping, syntepalous;

perianth connate proximally, funnelform to campanulate, with minute corona reduced to small crown inserted on throat of tube;

tepals 6 in 2 whorls of 3, outer slightly shorter than inner;

stamens inserted on perianth tube, declinate, subequal;

filaments slender;

ovary inferior, ellipsoid;

style slender, ca. equaling tepals;

stigma capitate or slightly 3-lobed.

slightly zygomorphic;

perianth reddish to salmon, with whitish midstripe on adaxial surface of each outer tepal, tube 3 cm;

outer tepals lanceolate to subrhombic, 12 cm or more, apex acuminatenate.

capsular, dehiscence loculicidal.

ellipsoid to ovoid, 2 cm.

few to many.

black, compressed-globose or -subglobose.