Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

not flexuous, 25–70 cm, densely puberulent to glabrescent.

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.

gradually narrowed into sheath;

blade light green, elliptic-lanceolate, 7–39 × 1.5–4.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), minutely puberulent to glabrescent.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal, usually also axillary from distal nodes;

bracts foliaceous.

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 1.5–3 cm, densely puberulent;

sepals green, 6–9 mm, glandular-puberulent or mixed glandular- and eglandular-puberulent;

petals distinct, white to pale mauve, rarely bright pink, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1–1.2 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

8–10 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

3–4 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12.