Albuca canadensis tepal tips

Something of the hinged flaps present at the tips of the inner three tepals of an Albuca canadensis flower is visible here. There are two white bulges at the upper corners of each inner tepal tip, as well as a perceptible incurving hook and bulge at the tip of a slightly spread outer tepal in view.

The tepals have broad green bands down their keels. The inner three tepals remain together in the centre in perianth style, while the outer three spread, albeit not always with equal conviction. The acutely pointed bract below each pedicel is pale green and membranous, and may show paler margins until it dries and becomes papery.

The buds are erect, while the open flowers nod, sometimes half-heartedly. The oldest flowers below the open ones in the raceme are erect again, green all over in their narrowed bodies, shrivelling in the part above their ovaries. The capsules are borne erectly. The style persists on the green ovary at fruiting (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).