Drosanthemum prostratum faded flower

The old Drosanthemum prostratum flower in picture has randomly draped, withered petals around the slightly convex, nearly flat-topped green ovary. The sepal-tips protruding around the ovary are now also whitish-withered.

There are five fleshy, reddish and shiny stigma branches, somewhat translucent, still present in a half-hearted star-shape over what was the flower centre, later to be the five-locular capsule.

The upper stem is not much darker than the visible bud pedicel yet, although its hairs are much longer (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).