Staberoha banksii male spikelets, the florets inside

The many pollen-bearing male florets of Staberoha banksii are positioned in the gaps left by the spreading, brown bracts in picture. The yellow anthers are hidden inside, the sessile florets comprising only tepals and anthers on male plants.

Wind pollination used by these plants is a hit and miss affair, requiring copious quantities of pollen to be spread for enough seeds to reproduce the species. This venture is successful if a female plant grows nearby, if the male plant grows many flowering culms, if there are many spikelets in each culm-tipped inflorescence and if each spikelet grows many florets.

Then the florets need to produce and release their share of pollen. This may spread hay fever, but more importantly, spread pollen grains that reach female florets by fluke (Dorrat-Haaksma and Linder, 2012; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; JSTOR).