Lapeirousia fabricii finer details

This near white Lapeirousia fabricii flower lifts the three tepals of its upper lip as if paying homage. They are larger, less white than the ones in the lower lip, their margins wavy to crisped in parts.

The lower three tepals are smaller, whiter, adorned with dark red blotches. They appear less inclined to be courteous, as their laterals sag in seeming diffidence. The curious claw-like appendages seen here may be bending their sharp tips over these three tepals in symbolic retribution!

The six whitish tips of the branched style diverge below the dorsal tepal. Close to them the three blackish, oblong anthers appear disciplined, at attention near the style that has the whip hand (Manning, 2007; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).