Flora of North America species comparison

1(–2), on basal half of stem, ascending to spreading, usually abruptly reduced to bracts distally;

blade oblanceolate to oblong, linear-oblong, or elliptic, 3–19 × 0.8–3.5 cm.

several to many, ascending, scattered along stem, imperceptibly reduced to bracts distally;

blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, to 26 × 5 cm.

moderately dense.

lax.

resupinate, often incompletely so and held at angle, not showy, rather inconspicuous pale green to dull yellowish green;

lateral sepals porrect;

petals ovate to obovate;

lip oblong, obscurely 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 3–7 × 3–4 mm, margins sometimes dentate-lacerate, apex truncate;

spur clavate, 7–13 mm;

rostellum lobes directed downward, very short, truncate;

pollinaria straight or slightly curved laterally;

pollinia fragmenting, pollen masses trailing down onto stigma;

viscidia linear to linear lanceolate;

ovary rather stout, 6–11 mm.

resupinate, showy, creamy white;

lateral sepals somewhat porrect;

petals flabellate, truncate, sometimes emarginate, apically lacerate;

lip descending, deeply 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 17–32 × 20–39 mm, distal margins of lobes deeply incised and fringed, lateral lobes flabellate, sometimes broadly and overlapping middle lobe, middle lobe flabellate, sometimes very broadly, emarginate;

spur slenderly clavate, 36–55 mm;

rostellum lobes directed strongly forward, wide-spreading, angular;

pollinaria geniculate;

pollinia directed forward (column appearing hooded), remaining enclosed in anther sacs;

viscidia orbiculate;

ovary slender, mostly 20–30 mm.

= 42.

= 42.