Flora of North America species comparison

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.

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

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

lax to dense.

lax.

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.

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.