Flora of North America species comparison

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

2-ranked;

blade variegated, abaxially reddish purple, adaxially striped green and white, lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 3–9 × 1.5–3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base oblique, cuneate, apex acute to acuminate.

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, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced.

terminal, usually also axillary from distal nodes;

bracts foliaceous.

subsessile;

sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm;

petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments 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-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

8–10 mm.

3–4 mm.

= 12.