Curio articulatus flowerheads

The Curio articulatus inflorescence comprises few spaced flowerheads without ray florets. Blue-stalked, the flowerhead bases are cup-shaped green involucres consisting of one row of narrow bracts with no scales on the receptacles. Few narrowly oblong, free bracts are visible, protruding from the peduncles.

The creamy white disc florets are bisexual. They are five-lobed when open, appearing spherical and tiny in bud. The five petals of each corolla recurve strongly. Floral attraction is mainly in the far exserted yellow anthers on dark filaments and the styles (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Moriarty, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).