Flora of North America species comparison

cylindrical.

cylindrical.

spreading, semisucculent, 8–40(–47) × 0.5–6.5(–9.3) cm;

blade usually spotted or speckled with maroon, shallowly channeled, oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, margins entire or with cartilaginous prickles.

sprawling, succulent, to 36 × 0.6–2.5 cm;

blade spotted with green or brown, glaucous, channeled, linear-lanceolate, brittle, margins with small, sparse, cartilaginous teeth.

4.5  13.8 dm.

4.2–13.1 dm.

14–68 cm, bearing 10–61 closely spaced flowers.

open, to 4 dm, 7–33-flowered.

sessile or pedicellate, nearly erect, slender, with sweet, fruity odor;

tepals green;

perianth tube 0.9–2.3 × 0.3–0.6 cm;

limb lobes erect, 0.4–0.8 cm;

filaments inserted near base of tube, bent in bud, exceeding tube by 1.2–3.1 cm;

ovary 4–10 mm;

style shorter than stamens, exceeding tube by 0.6–2.3 cm;

stigma white, 3-lobed, lobes reflexed.

erect, usually sessile, with strong, sweet odor;

tepals pale yellow or white, becoming pink to rose;

perianth tube funnelform, equal to or longer than ovary, 0.6–2.6 cm;

limb lobes recurved, 0.9–1.9 × 0.3–0.5 cm;

filaments bent near tip in bud, inserted near top of tube, exceeding tube by 0.8–2.2 cm;

ovary 6–19 mm;

style exceeding tube by 0.5–2.2 cm, usually shorter than stamens;

stigma white, not clavate, deeply 3-lobed, lobes reflexed.

globose, 1–1.7 cm diam. 2n = 60.

ellipsoid, 1.1–2.4 × 1–1.5 cm.