Brunsvigia radulosa stamens

    Brunsvigia radulosa stamens
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The stamens of Brunsvigia radulosa are borne closely together in a compact cluster. Similarly coloured to the tepals, the filaments are straight in their lower parts, turning up in unison near their tips where they hold the oblong anthers at the ready, slightly apart. 

    The filaments become from 4 cm to 5 cm long. The anthers are dark, their pollen cream. The anthers of B. radulosa are up to 12 mm long. The style tipped by its inconspicuous stigma is in their midst (Duncan, et al, 2016; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).

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