Flora of North America species comparison

cylindrical.

globose.

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.

spreading, succulent, (14–)25–39 × 2.2–4.8 cm;

blade light green, glaucous, spotted with green or brown round to oval markings up to 1 × 0.5 cm, channeled and undulate, or flat, broadly lanceolate, margins with teeth of several sizes, irregularly spaced, often retrorse.

4.5  13.8 dm.

21.4–21.95 dm.

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

crowded, 2.8–3.95 dm, bearing 27–46(–81) flowers.

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.

nearly erect, with cooked onion odor;

tepals golden green adaxially, glaucous and green abaxially;

perianth tube broadly funnelform-campanulate, 0.7–1.5(–2.2) cm;

limb lobes recurved, usually longer than tube, 0.7–2.1 cm;

filaments nearly erect at maturity, exserted by 4–6.6(–9.7) cm, bent near middle in bud;

ovary 10–20 mm;

style slightly longer than stamens;

stigma pale green, clavate, 3-angled, furrowed apically, lobes not reflexed.

globose, 1–1.7 cm diam. 2n = 60.

cylindrical, 2.3–3.1 × 1.6–1.9 cm.