Flora of North America species comparison

green, succulent, glabrous.

pale green, succulent, glabrous.

blade green, ovate to elliptic, 2.5–7 × 1.8–4.5 cm, apex rounded to obtuse or subacute.

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

5–30-flowered, lax, 50–130 mm;

floral bracts rhombic-ovate to lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous to slightly glandular;

peduncle and rachis glandular-pubescent.

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.

yellowish green, small;

pedicel filiform, 4–12 mm, glandular-puberulent;

sepals and petals distinct and free, spreading, only slightly reflexed;

dorsal sepal linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2.8–4 × 0.5–0.8 mm, apex acute to acuminate;

lateral sepals linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, falcate, 2.8–4 × 0.5–0.8 mm, apex acute to acuminate;

petals linear to linear-lanceolate, slightly falcate, 2.8–3.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, apex acute to acuminate;

lip sessile, cuneate to obovate, 4.5–6 × 2–4.5 mm, apex rounded to retuse, apiculate, apical margin slightly erose or crenulate;

disc with pair of dark green stripes, each swollen at base and with small horn 1 mm from top of each swelling;

column short, 1.5–2 × 1 mm.

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.

semierect, ovoid to subglobose, 5 × 4 mm, glabrous.

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

= 34.