Flora of North America species comparison

tuberous, thick.

suffused with purplish violet.

unbranched or sparsely branched, arachnoid-villous.

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.

2-ranked, narrowing toward shoot apex;

blade lanceolate-elliptic to ovate, 4–15 × 2–3.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base cordate-clasping, sparsely pilose to densely arachnoid-villous.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal, 1–4 axillary, sessile in axils of distal reduced leaves, boat-shaped spathes absent.

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.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 0.6–1.4 cm, densely arachnoid-villous;

sepals 6.5–8 mm, pilose to densely arachnoid-pubescent;

petals distinct, rose-purple to bluish, not clawed, 10–15 mm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

3.5–4 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12, 24, 24+ (Mexico).