Flora of North America species comparison

(1.5–)2–4 mm thick, fleshy.

suffused with purplish violet.

5–35 cm;

internodes glabrous or occasionally distal internodes sparsely puberulent.

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, sessile;

blade linear-lanceolate, 13–37 × 0.4–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glabrous or occasionally puberulent.

terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate;

peduncles (3.5–)4–13 cm;

bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced.

terminal and (rarely) axillary;

bracts foliaceous, well developed, not saccate, sparsely to densely pilose.

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 1.2–3.5 cm, eglandular-pilose or puberulent;

sepals ± inflated, 7–16 mm, uniformly eglandular-pilose;

petals distinct, blue to purple, occasionally rose or white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–2 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

4–7 mm.

2.5–3 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 24 (Mexico).

= 12, 24.