Piaranthus geminatus subsp. geminatus red flowers

The red Piaranthus geminatus subsp. geminatus flower corollas seen here in the Little Karoo have very little cream background among the red dots that run together in continuous colouring towards the tapering and sometimes curving, narrow corolla lobe tips.

The small corona star in the centre is formed by five short lobes, brightly yellow in colour. These lobes are toothed and perpendicular to the anthers under them (White and Sloane, 1937; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010).