Flora of North America species comparison

clustered, fibrous-thickened.

unbranched, short.

sparsely branched, 30–50 cm, tufted, glabrous.

spirally arranged;

blade usually abaxially purple, adaxially green, strap-shaped, to 35 × 5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), leathery, succulent, glabrous.

spirally arranged, distant;

blade not variegated, narrowly lanceolate, 7.5–16 × 1–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins smooth or ciliate-scabrous, apex acuminate, glabrous to sparsely pubescent.

axillary, sessile, or pedunculate in axils well below shoot apex, cymes enclosed in pairs of boat-shaped spathes.

terminal;

bracts very unlike proximal stem leaves, connate, ovate-lanceolate, 2.4–4.5 cm, base cordate, somewhat dilated.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels glabrous;

sepals distinct, white, 3–6 mm, glabrous;

petals distinct, white, ovate, not clawed;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

subsessile;

pedicels densely covered with white, long, eglandular hairs or occasionally only with colorless, short, glandular hairs;

sepals distinct, usually glandular-pubescent as well as villous;

petals purplish red, clawed, claws connate basally forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments glabrous.

3- or (by abortion) 2-locular, 3–4 mm.

3.5 mm, glabrous.

1 per locule, 3–4 mm.

1.5 mm.

= 12 (Belize).