Sepals

"Sepals" not heavily veined with violet but with a basal patch of yellow.

Find Me A Cure 2009

Sepals and petals removed to show carpellodic stamens. _b.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

"Sepals oval, coloured," does not point out very clearly the information desired.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

Sepals very large, incurved, overlapping each other, having the appearance of being semi-double, and being of good substance.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

Sepals 5 to 7, petal-like, falling early; petals 5 to 6, inconspicuous, like club-shaped columns; stamens numerous; carpels few, the stigmatic surfaces curved.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Sepals and petals similar, oval, acute; the lip on upper side of flower is broad at the summit, tapering into a claw, flexible as if hinged, densely bearded on its face with white, yellow, and magenta hairs (_Calopogon_ = beautiful beard).

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Sepals pointed, united, arching above the converging petals, and resembling a hood; lip large, spreading, prolonged into a spur, which is largest at the tip and as long as the twisted footstem.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Sepals petal-like, falling early; 4 to 8 small stamen-like petals 2-cleft; stamens very numerous, with long filaments; 1 or 2 sessile pistils with broad stigmas.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Sepals lance-shaped, spreading, greenish purple, 2 in. long or less; petals narrower and longer than sepals.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Sepals, 3, colored; 1 large, sac-shaped, contracted into a slender incurved spur and 2-toothed at apex; 2 other sepals small.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891