Wiborgia tenuifolia flat, winged fruit

    Wiborgia tenuifolia flat, winged fruit

    The purplish, flat Wiborgia tenuifolia fruit is winged, not fully visible here but the style persists on the tip. The rigid, membranous-looking fruit surface is purplish but varying in colour, covered in a whitish bloom.

    The hairy calyx is still firmly in position (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).