Flora of North America species comparison

often flexuous, 30–100 cm;

internodes pilose 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.

spirally arranged, at least proximal ones distinctly petiolate;

blade dark green, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate-elliptic or lanceolate, 6–30 × (0.4–)1–6.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glabrous to puberulent.

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

terminal, usually also axillary at distal nodes, axillary inflorescences sessile or variously pedunculate;

bracts foliaceous.

subsessile;

sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm;

petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments bearded.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 1–1.7 cm, pilose to glabrous;

sepals 4–10 mm, puberulent with glandular, eglandular, or mixture of glandular, eglandular hairs, occasionally glabrous;

petals distinct, light to dark blue, rarely white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 10–15 mm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

4–6 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 12, 24.