Flora of North America species comparison

glandular and/or glandular-pubescent.

leafless, or with 1–3 leaves towards base, 20–70 cm, coarsely glandular-pubescent below inflorescence.

mostly basal with 0–3 towards stem base, 2-ranked, equitant;

blade linear.

blades to 35 cm × 6 mm.

terminal, racemose, open or dense and spikelike, elongating in fruit, bracteate, bracteolate;

bracteoles connate in epicalyx.

racemose, 15–80-flowered, usually open, 3–22 cm;

bracts subtending pedicel in cluster;

bracteoles shallowly 3-lobed or cleft from proximal 1/3 to base, lobes acute or rounded, usually glandular.

borne in clusters of 2–7;

tepals persistent, 6, in 2 somewhat dissimiliar series, distinct;

stamens 6;

filaments strongly flattened, dilated basally;

anthers basifixed, 2-locular, introrse, without appendages;

ovary superior, stipitate, apocarpous basally, glabrous;

intercarpellary nectary present;

styles 3.

borne in clusters of (2–)3(–7), proximal sometimes remote;

perianth white, drying orange;

tepals 2.5–5 mm, inner series narrower, longer;

stamens 2.5–4.5 mm;

ovary ellipsoid to cylindrical, usually tapering abruptly to style base, forming rounded shoulder;

styles connate basally into column 1/4–2/3 their length, 1–1.8 mm;

pedicel 2–12 mm.

capsular, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid or cylindrical, glabrous, dehiscence septicidal, then adaxially loculicidal.

ovoid to subglobose, 3–5 mm, ± equaling or slightly longer than tepals and ± enclosed by them, hard.

appendaged.

reddish brown, ca. 1 mm;

appendages 1 or 2 with one at one end ca. 1/2 to equaling seed, one at opposite end often much shorter;

coat absent.

= 15.