Euphorbia colliculina cyathia

The bisexual flowers or false flowers of Euphorbia colliculina display many yellow and slight red features meriting the attention of the Little Karoo pollinators. A few of the sessile, stalkless pseudanthia (false flowers) populate the stem-tip in picture.

The stalked male components are arranged in a ring around the female part of every flower. The stamens are tipped with small, paired yellow anthers. The female, central part of the flower ends in three, spreading, flattish, dull green, stigma lobes.

The involucral glands range in colour from bright red, dull orange to greenish yellow. They are disc-shaped around the floral base, the overall, dominant floral colouring remaining yellow and yellowish (Frandsen, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).