Diascia hexensis flower profile

Seen from the side, the Diascia hexensis flower shows its two, medium length, diverging and tapering spurs at the back of the corolla, pointing down. They are usually slightly longer than 1 cm, protruding from the corolla about where the tube meets the upper lip.

There are oil-secreting hairs inside the deeper halves of the spurs. This oil is the incentive produced for Rediviva bees, the pollinators of this and other Diascia species.

The five acutely pointed sepals are strongly flexed back from the corolla behind each open flower. These green sepals are notably hairy, the upper three differing from the lower pair.

The fruit capsule that grows later is narrowly sickle-shaped (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist; http://www.worldfloraonline.org).