Monsonia crassicaulis curved fruit

The long and thin-beaked Monsonia crassicaulis fruit or lobed schizocarp may at some stage curve as in the photo before it splits. It seems to be nearly ready for the parting into one-seeded mericarps, when the individual awns will twist separately. A mericarp is a one-seeded fruit segment that breaks off when dry from the dehiscing schizocarp or fruit comprising two or more carpels or seed-bearing structures.

Even now the durable and hairy calyx appears floral and spreading at the back of the overall fruit structure, long after the prettier and flimsier corolla has gone (Van Rooyen and Van Rooyen, 2019; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Le Roux, et al, 2005; iNaturalist).