Gloriosa superba flower from the back

Looking down on the nodding Gloriosa superba flower reveals more of the clawed tepal outside surfaces that ascend as they spread. The tepal bases are dark in picture. Only the recurved, tapering tips are showing their inside surfaces in this view.

Tepal width peaks in the steepest part of the curves, where the marginal crinkling is also most. Very little of yellow tepal colouring is visible at this angle, only glimpsed at some margins. The diverging filaments at the far end of the flower are yellow though, their pale brown anthers pointing their upper cylinder tips back at the flower base (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).