Holothrix villosa flowers

The small flowers of Holothrix villosa grow in a lax or dense spike. It may produce up to 100 flowers. Flower colour varies from cream to yellow-green, occasionally reddish or red-brown. The thick green ovary has sparsely scattered long hairs as well as a reddish surface streak.

There is what appears to be a dark green, pointed bract at the flower base. The flower shape seems twisted. The three fleshy lobes of the lip resembling the sepals are narrowly linear. The white spur at the back of the lip is from 2 mm to 5,5 mm long and curved.

Flowering happens from late winter to early summer. This species is not fire-dependent for flowering (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; www.pacificbulbsociety.org).