Flora of North America species comparison

thick, fleshy, densely brownish-tomentose.

erect or ascending, unbranched or sparsely branched, 30–105 cm;

internodes arachnoid-pubescent.

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 linear-lanceolate, 10–35 × 0.7–2.8 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, arachnoid-pubescent, especially on sheaths.

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 1–2.3 cm, pilose or villous with eglandular or mixed eglandular, glandular hairs;

sepals 5–14 mm, pubescent with mixture of glandular, eglandular hairs;

petals distinct, bright blue-violet, rarely rose or white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 15–18 mm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

6–8 mm.

3–4 mm;

hilum as long as seed.

= 12, 24.