Flora of North America species comparison

suffused with purplish violet.

often flexuous, 30–100 cm;

internodes pilose 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.

spirally arranged, at least proximal ones distinctly petiolate;

blade dark green, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate-elliptic or lanceolate, 6–30 × (0.4–)1–6.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glabrous to puberulent.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal, usually also axillary at distal nodes, axillary inflorescences sessile or variously pedunculate;

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 1–1.7 cm, pilose to glabrous;

sepals 4–10 mm, puberulent with glandular, eglandular, or mixture of glandular, eglandular hairs, occasionally glabrous;

petals distinct, light to dark blue, rarely white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 10–15 mm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

4–6 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12, 24.