Albuca flaccida flower

In bud the Albuca flaccida flower is ellipsoid, nearly cylindrical, pendent from a curved pedicel with papery, pale brown bract at its base. When open, the outer three tepals flare widely, while the inner three retain their slightly widened barrel-shape. Variable green bands are central longitudinally on the otherwise yellow tepals, visible both outside and in. The outer tepals in picture end in tiny hooks, the inner ones having some lateral white at their hinged tips (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; iNaturalist; www.pacificbulbsociety.org).