Lachenalia pallida changing angles with age

The bracts beside the Lachenalia pallida flower pedicels are small and pale. The short, cylindrical pedicels appear bluish purple on the upper flowers in picture, dark grey on the lower ones.

The young flowers angling up have dark red to brick-red tips and white tepal tip margins, the base parts of the perianths pale pink. This colour is soon relinquished as the perianths open and sag. Their tips become brown to green-brown, the base parts white to dull greenish white and the stamens for a while exserted.

The lowermost flowers are closed again, the styles and stamens having done their work, are recovered and flowering a thing of the past (Manning, 2007; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).