Lobelia pinifolia flowers

These Lobelia pinifolia flowers are admired for their three round-tipped lobes in the lower lip. The lateral pair is slightly smaller than the central one and oblique in shape. All three have central, longitudinal folds on the lobes that face the same way and are positioned in the same plane. There is some white in picture where they join each other above the two, small, recurved lobes of the upper lip that are separated down the middle.

The five-lobed calyx is shorter than the corolla tube, partly black and hairy. The flowers are up to 15 mm long.

The stamens are attached to the petal bases, their anthers joined together and tipped with a hairy tuft.

The photo was taken near the Hermanus golf course (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; iNaturalist).