Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)1.5–5 mm thick, fleshy.

not flexuous, 5–40 cm;

internodes usually glabrous.

unbranched, short.

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 usually abaxially purple, adaxially green, strap-shaped, to 35 × 5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), leathery, succulent, glabrous.

terminal;

bracts foliaceous.

axillary, sessile, or pedunculate in axils well below shoot apex, cymes enclosed in pairs of boat-shaped spathes.

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.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels glabrous;

sepals distinct, white, 3–6 mm, glabrous;

petals distinct, white, ovate, not clawed;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

5–7 mm.

3- or (by abortion) 2-locular, 3–4 mm.

2–3 mm.

1 per locule, 3–4 mm.

= 12.

= 12 (Belize).