Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

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;

blade lanceolate-oblong to ovate-elliptic, 5–10 × 2–3.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal and axillary from distal leaf axils, 2–4 cyme pairs per stem;

bracts foliaceous or more commonly reduced (especially in axillary inflorescences).

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 1–2 cm, glandular-pilose especially toward apex;

sepals 5–7 mm, midrib pilose with glandular and eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, white, not clawed, 9 mm;

stamens free;

filaments white, densely bearded with white hairs.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

2.5–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).