Aulax cancellata colourful new leaf growth

The narrow leaves of Aulax cancellata are accentuated when new stem-tip growth surpasses the yellow, male inflorescence in erect orange tips. Some of the green leaves below the inflorescence are wider, channelled above, and curved or S-shaped.

What looks like a pollinating visitor may be rewarded in pollen but not in nectar. A. cancellata has no nectaries in male or female flowers, i.e. on male and female plants. Bright colours serve just fine in some plants for attracting diurnal feeders that unknowingly adopt the reciprocal service of pollen grain dispatch riders (Manning, 2007; Rebelo, 1995; iNaturalist).