Flora of North America species comparison

pale green, succulent, glabrous.

green to reddish purple, succulent, glabrous.

blade pale green, suborbiculate to suborbiculate-ovate or elliptic-ovate, 2.5–6 × 1.5–4.2 cm, apex subobtuse.

blade broadly to narrowly ovate-cordate or deltate, 0.9–2(–4) × 0.7–2(–3.8) cm, apex mucronate.

5–20-flowered, lax, 20–100 mm;

floral bracts broadly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2–7 × 1–2 mm, apex obtuse;

peduncle and rachis densely glandular-puberulent;

bracts, pedicel, and ovary glabrous to rarely glabrate.

5–25-flowered, lax to dense, 20–100 mm, slender;

floral bracts ovate, 1–1.5 × 1 mm;

peduncle and rachis slightly glandular-puberulent or glabrate;

bracts, pedicel, and ovary glabrous.

pale green to blue-green, fading whitish with age;

pedicels stout, 2.5–5 mm, glabrous, rarely glabrate;

sepals and petals reflexed away from column and lip;

dorsal sepal elliptic-obovate, 3–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm, apex subobtuse;

lateral sepals elliptic, oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, strongly falcate, 3–4 × 1–1.5 mm, apex subobtuse to acute;

petals linear-oblong to linear, falcate, 3–3.7 × 0.8 mm, apex obtuse;

lip obovate to oblong, base of lip with auricles curving around and clasping base of column, apex slightly expanded, cleft approximately 1/5–1/3 its length, forming 2 broadly rounded lobes, margins ciliate;

disc 3-veined with lateral veins branched, base with ridge in center;

column arcuate, 2.5–3.3 × 1 mm, dilated at distal end.

yellow-green, green, or reddish purple;

pedicel slender, 2–3 mm;

dorsal sepal ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, 2–3 × 1 mm, apex obtuse;

lateral sepals ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, slightly falcate, 2–3 × 0.5–1.5 mm, apex obtuse;

petals elliptic to oblong-linear, 1.5–2.5 × 0.5–1 mm, apex obtuse;

lip linear-oblong, cleft 1/2 –2/3 its length into 2 linear-lanceolate lobes, 3–4 × 1–1.5 mm;

disc with pair of spreading, linear lobes, apices acute;

column 0.5 × 0.5 mm.

horizontal to semi-erect, ellipsoid, 8 × 4 mm.

semierect, subglobose, 5 × 4 mm.