Pollichia campestris flowers

    Pollichia campestris flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Louis Jordaan

    The tiny, yellowish florets of Pollichia campestris are bisexual, growing nearly stalkless in dense, cyme-shaped clusters from leaf axils. Each floret is subtended by a bracteole.

    There are five, free, small sepals, as well as five, minute, scale-like petals. The floret mouths are closed. The single-locule ovary containing two ovules is topped by the style. The ovary is positioned on the receptacle and surrounded by the stamens and petals.

    Flowering happens throughout the year (Van Rooyen and Van Rooyen, 2019; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Pooley, 1998; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).

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