(H) PETAL - BICOLORED

Updated by Derek Butcher & Eric Gouda: 10-02-2020 10:35:46.

1	PETAL	Erect, making a tube.	8
		Tip erect to more or less spreading.
		erect, very long, soon flopping, green with	grandis
		maroon edges
		With wide petal blade.	2
2	LEAF	Stiff distichous. Petal blade wide, dark	caliginosa
		brown with dirty yellow mid stripe.
		Arranged in a whorl.	3
3	FLOWER	Spirally on rhachis. Petal light blue with	bergeri
		"white mid stripe; mildly wavy, twisted."
		Distichous.	3A
3A	PETAL	With blue petal blade and white eye	5
		Other colour.	4
4	PETAL	With white petal blade and blue or violet	purpurea
		edges. Floral bract nearly straight.
		Cream with blue or violet tips.	cacticola
		Edges of floral bracts bent.
5	PLANT	With stem,petal blade mainly	streptocarpa
		pale blue with white eye.
		Stemless. Leaves forming a funnel rosette.	6
6	PLANT	With few hard, stiff, nearly plump leaves,	esseriana
		making an almost upright rosette.
		With numerous, soft flexible leaves	7
7	INFLORESCENCE	One swordshaped spike.	7A
		More compound spike.	hamaleana
7A	INFLORESCENCE	To 16 cm long. Floral bracts rose to red. Scape	cyanea var tricolor
		very short
		To 7 cm long, 4 - 6 flowered. Floral bracts	lindeniana
		green, prominantly nerved. From Ecuador.	was umbellata
8 (1)	INFLORESCENCE	Compound.	15
		Simple.	9
9	LEAF	Feathery or frosty scaled.	9A
		Not feathery or frosty scaled.	10
9A	STAMENS	enclosed	See Key I
		exserted, petals dark violet with whitish tip	mitlaensis
10	INFLORESCENCE	Upright	12
		Downward pointing. Leaf, tongue	brenneri
		shaped, green with brown flecks.
12	FLOWER	Polystichous. Stem very short.	rectifolia
		Inflorescence sessile in rosette.	(now treated as a hybrid)
		Distichous.	13
13	FLOWER TUBE	Red, tip yellow. Plant flasklike at the base,	subulifera
		greenoften with white crossbands, twisted.
		Apical 10-12 mm yellow white , middle part 10-12	chapalillaensis
		mm lavender, base white
		White to dark violet.	14
14	FLOWER TUBE	White with one deep dark violet circle at top.	punctulata
		Dark violet, white tips.	elizabethae
		(Renate Ehlers- Inflorescence can be simple
		or up to 9 spikes.)
		dark violet, white tips. Pant caulescent. Leaves	mitlaensis var tulensis
		appressed grey-white scales
15 (8)	PLANT	Stemless.	17
		With stem.	15A
15A	PETAL	Yellow with some red.	schiedeana
		base white, middle lavender, top yellow-white	chapalillaensis
		red with white tip	sangii
		Blue and white.	16
16	LEAF BLADES	linear to terete	16A
		narrow triangular	16B
		ligulate, 4cm wide, green, petals blue with	bongarana
		white tip
16A	INFLORESCENCE	On long or short stem.	See Key I
		Leaves with feathery scales
		On long or short stem	21
		Leaves without feathery scales
16B	INFLORESCENCE	On long stem. Petal tube pale violet-blue	rhodocephala
		with white tip. Leaf to 50 cm long, 3 cm wide
		at base, narrow triangular with grey scales
		On long stem, Petal tube mauve top 1/3 white,	calochlamys
		bottome 2/3, leaf to 40cm long
		On short stem. Petal tube pale lilac with	huarazensis
		white succulent tip. Leaf 10 - 20 cm long,
		3.5 cm wide at base
17	PLANT	Bulb-like at base.	17A
		sub bulbose rosette	17B
		Rosette funnel shape.	18
17A	PLANT	Slender spindle shape. Leaf green, often with	subulifera
		white crossband, sometimes twisted.
		Flower red with yellow tip.
		At the base, bulb-like to 8 cm wide and 10 cm	ehlersiana
		high. Inflorescence capitate, sessile.
		Blue violet petal with white bottom
17B	SPIKES	to 3cm long, scape to 6cm long, bent, petals	lautneri
		top 1/3 violet, bottom white
		to 6cm long, scape to 35 cm long, hanging,	mateoensis
		petals top 1/4 violet, bottom white
18	INFLORESCENCE	Hanging, stem long, 2 spikes.	brenneri
		Leaf green with reddish brown blotches.
		petals top violet, bottom white
		hanging to 40x4.5cm, slenderly cylindric, with	tequendamae
		8-9 spikes, petals green with blue edges
		Hanging, to 1m long, to 25 horizontal spikes	mirabilis
		short scape, petals green upper 1/3 streaked
		with violet
		Declinate to pendulous, 3-5 spikes, leaves	engleriana
		filiform attenuate, petals blue with white tip
		Upright or bent upwards.	19
19	INFLORESCENCE	Narrow cylindric, to 4cm diam, with to 15	portilliae
		adnate side spikes 3cm long, petals green
		with black/violet tips and margins
		ovoid, to 15 x 7cm, to 10 short spikes, petals	turneri
		blue with white tips
		Laxly once branched, Plant flowering to 1.5 m	oerstediana
		high, branches at right angles, petals dirty white
		with light violet spots, stamens included
21	SCAPE	Long, erect or bent upwards.	22
		short, inflorescence digitate 3 spikes, petals	abbreviata
		white but pink near sepal
		Very short or nearly missing.	idus
22	INFLORESCENCE	Laxly compound	23
		Densely compound, petals green with	porphyrocraspeda
		dark purple margins
		Densely compound, petals lavender with	fragrans
		white tips
		Densely compound, petals appear purple-rose	peruviana
		really cream with dense violet-rose speckles
23	SPIKES	5 - 8 cm long	24
		9 - 20 cm long	25
		30 cm long, 15 mm wide, petals green	cereicola
		with violet speckles
24	SPIKE	25 - 35 mm wide, petals white at base, dark	punctulata
		violet above with fine white dots
		10 - 15 mm wide	24A
24A	FLORAL BRACT	Pink, obscurely lepidote. Petals lilac with	didistichioides
		white tips
		green, shiny.petals white at base violet above	cajamarcensis
25	FLORAL BRACT	Arranged imbricately on rhachis.	26
		Arranged laxly.	29
26	STAMENS	Longer than petals, petals purple	elizabethiae
		tipped white
		Shorter than petals	27
27	LEAF BLADES	Ligulate, green, Petals white at base	rubro-violascens
		tipped violet-blue
		Narrowly triangular, grey	28
28	PETAL	Violet-blue, thin white border	olmosana
		Stamens exceed flower	var. olmosana
		Greenish-yellow with violet edge, Stigma	olmosana
		protruding from flower but not stamens	var. pachamamae
29	FLORAL BRACT	Red. Flower tube bottom white	kirchhoffiana
		and dark blue above
		Green. Flower tube bottom white	makoyana
		and violet above.