Lanaria lanata branched panicles

Lanaria lanata panicles are much branched, the peduncle branches sometimes longer and well exposed among the florets and their woolly paraphernalia.

Besides the butterfly in picture, honeybees and monkey beetles also visit these flowers commonly.

The nearly globose, three-chambered fruit capsules produce one seed per chamber. The old perianths persist at capsule tips.

L. lanata seeds are black and shiny (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).