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.

erect-arching, succulent, 14–45 × 1–2.7(–3.9 in cultivated specimens) cm;

blade sometimes spotted with elongate brown or green markings, sometimes glaucous, deeply channeled, linear-lanceolate, margins usually with small, distantly spaced teeth.

4.5  13.8 dm.

4.7–10.8 dm (–13.3 in cultivation).

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

lax, (0.75–)1.4–2.9 dm (–4.8 dm in cultivation), bearing 7–41 distantly spaced 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.

sessile, spreading, with cooked onion odor;

tepals green or mahogany brown;

perianth tube broadly funnelform-campanulate, 0.6–1.6 cm;

limb lobes recurved, yellowish green or brownish, (0.6–)0.9–1.6 cm;

filaments wide-spreading at maturity, bent near middle in bud, exceeding tube by 3–6.5(–8.2) cm;

ovary 9–19 mm;

style ± equal to stamens;

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

globose, 1–1.7 cm diam. 2n = 60.

globose to cylindrical, 1.6–1.8(–2.5) × 1.3–1.6 cm.