Flora of North America species comparison

slender, succulent, glabrous.

green, slender to stout, slightly 4-angled, succulent, glabrous.

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

blade green to dark bluish green, elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or lanceolate, 1.3–6 × 0.7–3 cm, apex obtuse to rounded.

5–15-flowered, lax, 40–100 mm;

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

peduncle and rachis glandular-pubescent.

5–20-flowered, lax, 20–90 mm;

floral bracts lanceolate, ovate, or oblong, 1–3 × 0.5–1 mm, apex obtuse;

peduncle and rachis glandular-pubescent.

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.

pale green, yellowish green, or bluish green with veins darker green;

pedicel filiform, 3.5–7 mm, glandular-pubescent;

sepals and petals strongly reflexed away from lip and column;

dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 4–6 × 1.5–2.2 mm, apex obtuse to rounded;

lateral sepals linear-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, falcate, 4.5–7 × 1.4–2.3 mm, apex obtuse to rounded;

petals linear to linear-oblong, falcate, 4.5–5 × 0.7–1.5 mm, apex obtuse;

lip oblong, slightly narrowed in center, base with broadly rounded and bluntly angled divergent auricles, apex slightly dilated, cleft into 2 oblong or semiorbiculate lobes, with apicule in sinus;

disc 3-veined, lateral veins branched and purplish, base darker green, with ridge in center, thickened along center, 7–12 × 4.2–6.5 mm, margins ciliate;

column arcuate, stout, 3–4 × 1 mm.

semierect, ellipsoid, 5 × 3 mm.

ellipsoid, 8 × 5 mm.

= 38.

= 56.