Wiborgia tetraptera flowers

The cream to whitish flowers of Wiborgia tetraptera grow in short racemes. They may also be pale greenish and sometimes flushed purple. The dull, yellowish brown calyx is two-lipped, its lobes acutely pointed.

The wing petals are as long as the keel that curves up at its tip. The round-tipped banner has a fold or pleat down its centre and is strongly reflexed away from the rest of the corolla.

The flat, disc-shaped fruit has small wings protruding from its centre. Flowering happens in spring. This plant was photographed in the Gifberg in spring (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).