Flora of North America species comparison

often much branched distally, 15–60 cm;

internodes not at all to slightly glaucous, glabrous.

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, forming nearly right angle with stem, straight;

blade narrowly oblong-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 4–11(–20) × 0.4–1.2 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base often constricted, apex acuminate, not at all to slightly glaucous, glabrous.

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

terminal, often axillary;

bracts foliaceous.

subsessile;

sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm;

petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments bearded.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 0.8–1.5 cm, glabrous;

sepals 0.6–0.8 mm, glabrous or with apical tuft of eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, pale blue, ovate, not clawed, 1.3–1.5 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

2–5 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 12.