Flora of North America species comparison

pale green, succulent, glabrous.

slender, succulent, glabrous.

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

blade dark green, ovate-reniform, 2–4 × 1.5–3.5 cm, apex acute, mucronate, or apiculate to short-acuminate.

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.

5–15-flowered, lax, 40–100 mm;

floral bracts ovate, 3–4 × 1.5 mm, apex acute;

peduncle and rachis glandular-pubescent.

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.

green, purple-brown, to pinkish tan;

pedicel slender, 6–7 mm, glabrous;

sepals strongly reflexed;

dorsal sepal lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3–4 × 1 mm, apex acute;

lateral sepals lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3–4 × 1 mm, apex acute;

petals slightly reflexed, linear to linear-lanceolate, margins slightly revolute, apex acute;

lip sessile, broadly obovate to cuneate, 6–10 × 5–7 mm, base with rounded lobule on each side, apex dilated and deeply cleft into pair of ± divergent broadly rounded lobes, shallowly toothed in sinus;

column slightly arcuate, short, 1.5–3 × 1–2 mm.

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

semierect, ellipsoid, 5 × 3 mm.

= 38.