Flora of North America species comparison

fusiform-cylindric, 13 cm × 3–10 mm.

2–6;

petiole erect, 3–10 cm;

blade green abaxially and adaxially, narrowly to broadly elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 3.7–13 × 1.6–6.4 cm, apex obtuse to acute-acuminate.

immaculate, green to greenish brown;

scape to 57 cm × 1–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

racemes 7–50-flowered, 7–23 cm, pubescent;

floral bracts erect, immaculate or minutely speckled, lanceolate, 8–19 mm.

green to coppery brown, sometimes purplish, tubular-funnelform;

sepals basally connate for 0.1 mm, abaxially pubescent;

dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate, 4.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm, apex acuminate;

lateral sepals slightly sinuate-falcate, narrowly oblong, 5–7.5 × 1–2 mm;

petals linear to narrowly spatulate, 4–6.5 × 0.5–0.75 mm, glabrous;

lip white, canaliculate, pandurate to oblong-ovate, then constricted distal to middle, distal portion flabellate to reniform, usually broadest, or distal and proximal portions equal in width, 5–7 × 2–4 mm, base laterally thickened, with or without pair of tubercles, margins entire or crenulate;

column slender, 3.5–4.5 mm;

pollinia yellow.

erect-spreading, ellipsoid, 6–12 × 4–6 mm.

= 28, 30, 45.