Mimetes splendidus old flowers

A Mimetes splendidus flowerhead is made up of many headlets subtended by the pinkish inflorescence leaves that ascend around the stem tips. Each headlet grows from the axil of a velvety inflorescence leaf, and consists of about twelve florets. The florets in picture have already opened, the styles released by the perianths. The straight, yellow, black-tipped styles, now in fairly tight groups, are positioned under and close to the inflorescence leaves above them.

These inflorescence leaves fold down in their middle sections. The styles are about 5 cm long, the pollen presenters at their tips about 6 mm. The shorter, silvery grey perianth segments in the photo, already discarded, hang collapsed below the straight styles.

Flowering happens from late autumn to early spring. The ripe fruits are released between two months and six months after flowering. 

The inflorescence leaves also have the small teeth found at the tips of the normal leaves of the plant (Rebelo, 1995; iNaturalist).