Flora of North America species comparison

not flexuous, 10–50 cm;

internodes glabrous to pilose.

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.

spirally arranged, sessile;

blade silvery or gray-green, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 8–28 × 1–6 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base ± rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, ± glaucous, usually glabrous.

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

all or mostly terminal;

bracts foliaceous.

subsessile;

sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm;

petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments bearded.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 2–3.2 cm, glandular-pilosulose;

sepals 6–12 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pilosulose;

petals distinct, white or pale pink to pale lavender, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.6 cm;

stamens free.

3-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

6–8 mm.

3–4 mm.

= 12, 24.