Hermannia desertorum flowers

    Hermannia desertorum flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Jack Lätti

    The small yellow flowers of Hermannia desertorum are pendulous, growing from leaf axils near stem tips. Each has a thick, pinkish and hairy calyx at the base, which in their case is at the top.

    The corolla is curiously spiral-shaped; delicately thin petals overlap each other with one edge free, the other inside the narrow tube around the five stamens and the greenish style (Shearing and Van Heerden, 2008).

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