Duvalia caespitosa flowers

Duvalia caespitosa bears its flowers solitary or in pairs, emerging from the middle or lower parts of young stems. The pedicel is hairless, long and pink purple. The sepals tiny and lance-shaped, acutely tipped and also hairless. The grey-brown, pointed buds are worth noting.

The corolla has a starfish shape, five narrow, fleshy corolla lobes spreading around a raised annulus. The lobe margins are tightly folded down. The lobes are dark chocolate or reddish brown, their margins fringed low down, faintly purple-haired higher up.

The annulus is very finely hairy and also dark chocolate in colour. In the flower centre the outer corona is green or yellow, the lobes of the inner corona yellowish.

The flowers are not strongly scented. Whatever fragrance there is attracts flies, so dont get eager.

Flowering occurs from autumn to spring (White and Sloane, 1937; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).