Monsonia flavescens flowers

The pale to brightly yellow flowers of Monsonia flavescens grow solitary or in groups of up to three from the axils of the spines, each subtended by a pair of bracts.

The flower has five hairless sepals and five petals. The petals are about triangular, their truncated tips raggedly toothed to scalloped and their surfaces thin and wavy. The flower diameter is about 3 cm.

There are 15 stamens to a flower, 5 having long filaments and 10 shorter ones. Five yellow stigma branches spread from the tip of the style in the flower centre (Williamson, 2010; iNaturalist; www.llifle.com).