Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

unbranched or sparsely branched, to 30 cm.

spirally arranged;

blade not variegated, suffused with purplish violet, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, (4–)7–15 × 1.5–3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliate or ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous or glabrescent.

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, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal;

bracts similar to leaves.

subsessile;

pedicels 4–9 mm, densely white-pilose at summit;

sepals distinct, 7–10 mm, pilose basally;

petals ± connate at base, pink, clawed, 1.5–2 cm;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments very sparsely 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.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

obovoid to subglobose, 4 mm diam., glabrous.

2.5–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 18 (Mexico).