Flora of North America species comparison

2–6, wide-spreading and recurved to somewhat ascending, scattered along stem, gradually reduced to bracts distally;

blade lanceolate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, 13–24 × 2.5–9 cm.

2–5, spreading to ascending, scattered along stem, gradually reduced to bracts distally;

blade lanceolate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblance-oblong, 7–27 × 1.2–5 cm.

lax to rather dense.

lax to dense.

resupinate, showy, lavender- to rose-purple, rarely white;

lateral sepals spreading to somewhat reflexed;

petals ovate, oblong, elliptic-oblong, or oblong-obovate, margins crenate to dentate-lacerate, sometimes nearly entire;

lip descending to somewhat porrect, deeply 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 10–25 × 14–26 mm, distal margins of lobes fringed, usually deeply, lateral lobes sometimes perpendicular to middle lobe, lateral lobes cuneate, often broadly so, middle lobe broadly cuneate-flabellate, often emarginate to 2-fid;

spur clavate, 15–35 mm;

rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular;

pollinaria nearly straight;

pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs;

viscidia orbiculate;

ovary slender to stout, 12–25 mm.

resupinate, showy, rose-purple;

lateral sepals somewhat reflexed;

petals oblong-linear to spatulate, distally crenate to entire;

lip descending to somewhat porrect, deeply 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 11–20 × 12–23 mm, distal margins of lobes dentate-lacerate, rarely nearly entire, lateral lobes narrowly cuneate, middle lobe broadly cuneate-flabellate, emarginate to 2-fid;

spur clavate, 20–30 mm;

rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular;

pollinaria straight to geniculate;

pollinia directed forward;

viscidia orbiculate;

ovary slender, 13–23 mm.

= 42.