Flora of North America species comparison

25–90 cm.

scapelike, sometimes with 1–3 leaves near base, smooth.

blades to 30 cm × 6 mm.

equitant, 2-ranked;

blade linear.

open, 20–100-flowered, 3–25 cm;

bracts navicular, margins entire;

bracteoles forming epicalyx, 3-lobed, lobes acute.

terminal, racemose, open to dense, sometimes spikelike, bracteate, sometimes bracteolate, elongating in fruit;

bracteoles connate in epicalyx.

tepals white, 3–4.5 mm, inner tepals longer, wider than outer;

stamens 3–4 mm;

ovary narrowly ovoid;

styles 0.4–0.8 mm;

pedicel 1.5–4 mm.

inserted singly;

tepals persistent, 6, in 2 somewhat dissimilar series, distinct;

stamens 6;

filaments dilated basally, strongly flattened (except T. coccinea);

anthers basifixed, 2-locular, introrse, without appendages;

ovary superior, stipitate, apocarpous basally, glabrous;

intercarpellary nectary present;

styles 3.

capsular, broadly ellipsoid to globose or obovoid, chartaceous, glabrous, dehiscence septicidal, then adaxially loculicidal.

broadly ellipsoid, 3–4 mm.

1–1.3 mm.

reddish brown, without appendages.

= 15.