Tritonia gladiolaris flowers

The cream flowers of Tritonia gladiolaris may be quite pale, contrasting against the deep yellow or apricot corolla hues also shown in this Album. There is a touch of yellow inside the funnel-shaped throat among the characteristic pencil lines in picture. Further out on the lobes the lines may be quite faint, even invisible in the sunlight.

The dorsal tepal is biggest, the other two of the inner whorl smallest. The outer three tepals are similar, oblong and rounder-tipped. These flowers are closer to actinomorphic or radially symmetrical than the yellow, more zygomorphic or laterally symmetrical ones shown in other photos (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).