Dilatris pillansii ageing florets

End game in the Dilatris pillansii floral season shows the gradual darkening of flowers in the flat-topped and widely spread panicle. Dark dots near the rounded, perianth segment tips are, however, present in young flowers as well.

The outer segments, there are six of them in two concentric whorls, are narrower and hairier.

Although one of the three stamens is always shorter in a Dilatris flower, all of them are shorter than the perianths in D. pillansii.

The photo was taken on Lemoenkop near Hermanus (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).