Flora of North America species comparison

green to reddish purple, succulent, glabrous.

purplish green, succulent, glabrous.

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

blade dark green, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 1.3–4 × 0.5–2.1 cm, base often subcordate, apex obtuse to apiculate.

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.

5–25-flowered, lax, 45–110 mm;

floral bracts suborbiculate-ovate, 2 × 1 mm, apex obtuse;

peduncle and rachis slightly glandular-puberulent;

bracts, pedicel, and ovary glabrous.

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.

reddish purple;

pedicel filiform, 4–6 mm;

dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, concave, 1.5 × 1 mm, apex obtuse;

lateral sepals ovate, falcate, 1.5 × 1 mm, apex obtuse;

petals recurved, oblong, 1.5 × 0.5 mm, apex obtuse;

lip linear, 6–12 × 1.5–2 mm, base extended into 2 rounded, linear lobes, projecting distally, partially surrounding column, distal half split into 2 linear-lanceolate lobes with minute tooth in sinus;

column 0.5–1 × 0.5–1 mm.

semierect, subglobose, 5 × 4 mm. 

horizontal, ovoid, 8 × 5 mm, with relatively few large seeds.