Glumicalyx nutans flowers

The white to faintly green, cylindrical corolla tubes of Glumicalyx nutans diverge from the dominant calyx of short-haired, pointed, glume-like sepals, the dominant feature of the genus emphasised in the generic name Glumicalyx. The coloured, recurving corolla lobes ensure that there is nothing gloomy about the plant, in spite of its drooping floral habit.

Some oblong anthers and straight, pale styles protrude from flowers in the photo. Only two of the four anthers of a G. nutans flower are exserted (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; Manning, 2009; iNaturalist).