Ornithogalum dubium widely spread tepals

    Ornithogalum dubium widely spread tepals
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Louis Jordaan

    The white and slightly shiny tepals of these Ornithogalum dubium flowers spread widely, the corolla faces nearly flat. The tepals are still slightly concave above, the inner and outer three not quite identical and their shapes mostly obovate, wider near tip than base.

    The eye at the flower base is blackish green with some dull yellow around it, fading gradually into the white further out rather than distinctly delineated.

    The stamens are angled out around the ovary, their filaments dark and tapering. The anthers are unevenly shaped from pollen held and dropped, either yellow or pale grey. Some pollen can be seen lying on tepals in picture.

    The dark ovaries have vertical bulges and are topped by short styles with chunky stigmas, smaller than the anthers (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; iNaturalist).

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