Flora of North America species comparison

absent or 2–7 cm in flower, to 20 cm in fruit, shaggy pilose to villous.

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.

blade green, linear-lanceolate, 4–30 × 0.9–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins frequently clear or edged with rose, laxly and irregularly pilose or villous.

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

terminal, solitary;

bracts foliaceous, well developed, not saccate, sparsely to densely pilose.

subsessile;

sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm;

petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube;

stamens epipetalous;

filaments bearded.

distinctly pedicillate;

pedicels 4–6 cm, laxly pilose;

sepals usually purple or rose-colored (rarely pale green), not inflated, 1.2–1.6 cm, uniformly eglandular-pilose;

petals distinct, deep rose or purple, or frequently blue, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.8–2.2 cm;

stamens free;

filaments bearded.

3-locular;

locules 2-seeded.

5–7 mm.

2–3 mm.

= 24.