Spetaea lachenaliiflora inflorescence

Spetaea lachenaliiflora bears its flowers spaced in a loose, many-flowered raceme. Whatever grew here right at the top was abandoned rather abruptly. There probably is an internal signal in the plant when the resources and energy run low, and no further effort will be wasted on what can’t be seen through as proper flowers.

Tepal and stamen divergence varies, bear discussion on what drives this. These flowers clearly have several ways of appearing in life, also in recent death (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).