Diplosoma retroversum flowers tired

Fully exposed to sunlight, Diplosoma retroversum flowers end like this. By this time their job is usually done, once the drying petals drape haphazardly over bulging orange leaf bodies marked with scattered dark spots.

Tiny white anthers are visible on the stamens. The surrounding staminodes never had anthers, merely add to looks (aimed at pollinators) and may initially herd the stamens into a cone before all becomes loose and tousled.

Lower than the stamens, in the flower base there is an invisible dark green ring of fused nectar glands around the thread-like yellow stigmas. Nectar is for pollinator feeding, while stigmas are part of the female component of the bisexual flowers (Frandsen, 2017; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Smith, et al, 1998; iNaturalist; https://www.worldfloraonline.org).