Flora of North America species comparison

some tuberous, thick.

spreading and diffuse, much branched, mainly from base, pubescent with glandular hairs, eglandular hairs, or mixture.

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.

recurved and somewhat lax;

blade dark green to yellowish green, linear-lanceolate, mostly 20–30 × 0.5–1.0 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), sparsely to densely pubescent.

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

terminal, solitary, or more commonly also with lateral, pedunculate inflorescences;

bracts foliaceous, similar to leaves in form, sparsely to densely pubescent.

subsessile;

sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm;

petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments bearded.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 2.5–4.5 cm, densely pubescent with medium to long, glandular hairs;

sepals 6–11 mm, densely pubescent with glandular hairs like those of pedicels, occasionally with a few eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, pink to dark blue, broadly ovate, not clawed;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

2–4 mm;

hilum as long as seed.

= 12.