Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)1.5–5 mm thick, fleshy.

not flexuous, 5–40 cm;

internodes usually glabrous.

unbranched or sparsely branched, to 30 cm.

spirally arranged, sessile;

blade dull green, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, 9–27 × 1–4 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate, not glaucous, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

spirally arranged;

blade green, not variegated, broadly ovate to elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, to 8 × 3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), succulent, base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, ± glaucous.

terminal;

bracts foliaceous.

terminal;

bracts similar to leaves.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 2–3.2 cm, minutely pilose;

sepals somewhat inflated, 9–16 mm, uniformly eglandular-pilose;

petals distinct, deep blue, purple, or rose-red, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.5 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

subsessile;

pedicels densely pilose;

sepals distinct, glabrous;

petals distinct, deep pink to reddish purple, obovate, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments glabrous;

ovary glabrous.

5–7 mm.

obovoid to subglobose, 4 mm diam., glabrous.

2–3 mm.

= 12.

= 18 (Mexico).