Delosperma lydenburgense flowers

The somewhat long-stalked flowers of Delosperma lydenburgense are purple, growing solitary. The five leaf-like sepals around the base are unequal.

The linear petals growing in about one whorl, spread around a flower centre that is white from a multitude of erect stamens and staminodes. There are no short, inner petals.

Flowering happens in spring and summer. The photo was taken in March.

The soft, pale fruit capsules have four to six locules and no closing bodies. Their expanding keels are parallel, the valve wings rectangular. The rounded seeds are smooth and pale brown (Smith, et al, 1998; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org).