Albuca spiralis inflorescence

    Albuca spiralis inflorescence
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The few-flowered inflorescence of Albuca spiralis is a loose raceme, the long-stalked flowers nodding from a thin pedicel growing from a naked, cylindrical peduncle.

    Each flower is subtended by a narrowly lance-shaped, brown, papery bract. The green and pale yellow flowers are pendulous, about 3 cm in diameter and 1,8 cm long. In picture the outer tepals are not spreading as one might expect. All six stamens are fertile, the ovary superior and oblong. 

    Flowering happens from late winter to after midspring (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Eliovson, 1990; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).

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