Flora of North America species comparison

pale green or yellowish green, angled, sometimes obscurely winged or fluted distally.

2;

blade conduplicate, green, glossy, oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, keeled abaxially, 3.7–18 × 1–4 cm, succulent, apex obtuse to subacute.

2–10 cm;

floral bracts subulate, minute, 2 × 1 mm, apex acute;

pedicels slender, 3–5 mm.

2–15, green or yellowish green to yellowish white or greenish white;

dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 4.5–6 × 1–2 mm, apex obtuse to acute;

lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 4.5–5.5 × 1–2.2 mm, apex obtuse to acute;

petals pendent, slightly curved, tubular, filiform, 4.5–5.5 × 0.5–1 mm, margins strongly revolute;

lip translucent to opaque, green or yellowish green to yellowish white, obovate to oblong to suborbiculate, 4–5.5 × 2.2–3.5 mm, base narrowly cuneate, slightly auriculate, margins crenulate-wavy, apex subtruncate to obtuse, mucronate;

disc with central elongate thickening;

column short, stout, 2–3 × 0.5–1 mm, winged apically;

anthers yellow;

pollinia yellow.

pedicel 3–7 mm;

body obovate to ellipsoid, 9–13 × 3–6 mm, veins often slightly winged.

ovoid, 10 × 5 mm, sheathed by bracts and persistent leaf bases, previous year’s pseudobulb usually present, connected by short rhizome.

= 32, 26.