Ferraria ferrariola stamens and style branches

    Ferraria ferrariola stamens and style branches
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    The flower centre of Ferraria ferrariola is dominated by the feathery column of erect stamen filaments exserted above the spreading and recurving tepals. The filaments are free, diverging near their tips.

    The style branches are bilobed and deeply fringed at their tips, concealing the anthers that lie flat against them (Le Roux, et al, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; iNaturalist).

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