Pillansia templemannii flowers

The bright orange flowers of Pillansia templemannii grow in a loose, branched panicle on a cylindrical stem.

Each stalkless, radially symmetric, bowl-shaped flower is subtended by a firm leathery bract, green with red brown margins. The six tepals are united in a short tube, their tips rounded. The regular or radially symmetrical flowers are long-lasting, unscented, nectar-bearing, and about 1 cm long.

The three, oblong, bilobed anthers are exserted, pale yellow to cream. The exserted styles are divided into three slender branches, split or notched at their tips. Pollination is done by bees and monkey-beetles.

Flowering happens in spring, from before midspring, usually after fire or on land where the vegetation is short.

The capsule is obovoid. The large, angular seeds are smooth and shiny (Marais, (Ed.), 2017; Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).