Flora of North America species comparison

ovoid, 2–4 cm.

1.5–4.5(–6) dm.

simple, mostly with 2–3 reduced bracts, glabrous.

several, mostly proximal;

blade linear to oblanceolate, weakly keeled, 15–30 × 0.6–2.5 cm, apex acute.

mostly basal, reduced distally, spiral, arching downward, sheathing proximally;

blade narrowly linear to oblanceolate, strap-shaped, glabrous, apex acuminate or obtuse.

racemose and 3–6-flowered or paniculate and to 25-flowered;

bracts lanceolate, 6–10 mm.

terminal, racemose or paniculate, open, bracteate, glabrous.

drooping;

perianth narrowly tubular-campanulate;

tepals recurved distally, greenish to brownish purple, oblong-lanceolate, 10–20 mm, apex gradually acuminate;

tepal glands present;

stamens 7–8 mm;

filaments subequal;

pedicel ascending to erect, 1–3 cm.

proximalmost usually bisexual, distalmost staminate;

perianth tubular-campanulate or rotate;

tepals persistent, 6, distinct or weakly connate basally, glandular or not, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, equal to subequal, apex acute to acuminate;

claws absent;

tepal glands, when present, 2-lobed, adaxial;

stamens 6, distinct or connate basally, equal or subequal;

filaments lanceolate;

anthers basifixed, 1-locular, obcordate-reniform;

pollen sacs apically confluent, extrorse, opening into peltate disc;

ovary superior to half-inferior, 3-locular proximally, 1-locular distal to ovules;

septal nectaries absent;

styles persistent, 3, spreading to recurved, distinct;

stigmas minute.

capsular, deeply 3-lobed, membranous, slenderly 3-beaked, dehiscence septicidal, then adaxially loculicidal.

lanceoloid, 12–16 mm including slender style beaks, apex gradually acuminate.

brownish black, narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm.

3–4 per locule, brown to brownish black, narrowly oblong or ellipsoid to lanceoloid, flat, angled to winged.

= 8, 10.

= 16.