Watsonia aletroides, inside the flower

Each flower of Watsonia aletroides is subtended by a bract hugging the sturdy dark stalk of the spike. The dark, bluish grey anthers are not exserted beyond the corolla mouth here, although they sometimes are.

The three white-tipped inner tepals end in rounded out-curving lobes, while the outer three have slightly shorter tips that are obtusely pointed, positioned in the gaps left between the inner ones.

The flowers appear from late winter to nearly the end of spring. The W. aletroides fruit is narrow and tapered (Mustart, et al, 1997; Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).