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.

few–several, abruptly diverging or sometimes ascending, scattered along stem;

blade oblong to ovate or lanceolate, 5.5–16(–28) × 1–4.5 cm.

moderately dense.

very lax to dense, flowers sometimes irregularly grouped in fascicles.

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, not showy, green to yellowish green, often suffused with blue or lip sometimes with red;

lateral sepals spreading to reflexed;

petals ovate- to lance-falcate, margins entire;

lip descending to somewhat reflexed or projecting, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes with prominent suborbiculate basal dilation, without basal thickening, 4–8 × 1.5–3 mm;

spur strongly clavate to scrotiform, 2–3 mm, apex obtuse;

rostellum lobes strongly diverging, very small, rounded, obscure;

pollinaria straight;

pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs;

viscidia orbiculate to oblong;

ovary rather slender to stout, mostly 5–9 mm.

= 42.

= 42 [63].