Jamesbrittenia aurantiaca flower and dissected leaves

Jamesbrittenia aurantiaca flower and dissected leaves
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

The Jamesbrittenia aurantiaca flower has the brick-red corolla colouring also found in J. breviflora. There are parallel lines inside the yellow throat that does not appear as squashed as the corolla of the latter species.

The long, narrow, dissected leaves are hairy and chunky in the photo. There is what appears like a pendulous, dark fruit capsule held in a green calyx below the leaves.  

The photo was taken in grassland of the Mpumalanga highveld (Pooley, 1998; Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; iNaturalist; iSpot).

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