Flora of North America species comparison

green to reddish purple, succulent, glabrous.

green, stout, succulent, glabrous.

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

blade yellow-green to green, ovate-elliptic, 10–17 × 10–12 cm, apex acute.

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.

10–100-flowered, lax to dense, 10–50 cm;

floral bracts lanceolate, 3 × 1 mm;

peduncle and rachis glandular-pubescent.

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.

yellowish green;

pedicels stout, 3–4 mm, slightly glandular-pubescent;

sepals and petals projecting forward, connivent, forming hood over column;

dorsal sepal ovate, concave, 5–6 × 2–3 mm, apex obtuse;

lateral sepals ovate, concave, falcate, 4 × 2–3 mm, apex obtuse;

petals linear, concave, 4 × 1 mm, apex obtuse;

lip acutely deflexed near base, sessile, linear, apical 1/2 expanded, cleft into bluntly rounded lobes separated by tooth in sinus;

disc with longitudinal thickened ridge leading to deflection, 8–10 × 4 mm;

column short, 2 × 1.5 mm.

semierect, subglobose, 5 × 4 mm. 

semierect, ellipsoid, 10 × 6 mm.

= 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42.