Aristea bakeri flowers seen from behind

Aristea bakeri flowers grow in clusters enclosed by spathes, spaced up the stem. The smooth dark stem in picture is straight between the flower clusters. The spathes are dry and rusty brown with transparent margins, and sometimes hairy lower down.

Some developing fruit capsules, oblong and narrowly three-winged in shape, orange brown in colour, are here still topped by furled, old tepals that persist. The capsules turn woody as they ripen (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; iNaturalist).