Watsonia stokoei flower

The small flowers of Watsonia stokoei grow spaced in two opposite vertical arrays. The corolla tubes based in small dark bracts are cylindrical, from 2 cm to 3 cm long, the flower mouth flaring trumpet-shaped. The tepals broaden before their tips that just manage to avoid being rounded, shaped slightly, obtusely pointed.

Flower colour is pale scarlet to cerise, the tube slightly darker than the tepal lobes. The stamens in picture have long, erect, dark coloured anthers, their filaments may be up to 3 cm long, the branched stigma borne above them.

Flowering happens from late spring to midsummer, often vigorously after fire. Sunbirds are among the valued pollinators. Elliptic fruits follow (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iSpot).