Glumicalyx lesuticus exserted anthers

All four the yellow Glumicalyx lesuticus anthers are exserted from their corollas, offering pollen to nectar seeking passersby. This is a working agreement of long standing, serving countless generations of these plants and their loyal insect partners.

The five rounded, orange petal lobes of each flower are white-rimmed and white-backed, variably incurving in picture. The white, cylindrical corolla tubes behind the lobes widen slightly towards the corolla mouths. The inflorescence is fairly globose.

At the back, the densely packed hairy mass of sepals and bracts remind of somebody’s spidery nightmare (Springer, 2019: The role of pollinators as ecological drivers of diversification in the Drakensberg Mountain Centre endemic genus Glumicalyx (Scrophulariaceae, Limoselleae), University of the Witwatersrand; iNaturalist; JSTOR).