Gladiolus orchidiflorus style branches and anthers

The whitish, three-branched style of the Gladiolus orchidiflorus flower in picture is very slightly longer than the stamens ending in the thick and oblong anthers below them. The filaments are borne close together, greenish and translucent against the lower part of the dorsal tepal that here separates from them all near its tip.

The lowest tepal, immediately below the lower laterals, is broad as the upper laterals; these three broader ones forming the outer whorl of the perianth.

Stem parts and bracts in picture are pale grey (Goldblatt and Manning, 1998; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Le Roux, et al, 2005; iNaturalist).