Exomis microphylla var. microphylla old flowers

Withered floral leftovers on an Exomis microphylla var. microphylla bush seen on a sunny April day at the Vermont Salt Pan are mainly in the form of tepal or bract leftovers. The actual fruit of the plant is beaked, covered in the once fleshy outer wall of the ovary, the pericarp.

Both male and bisexual flowers grow on this plant, the male ones without bracts and ovaries, bearing only stamens. The fruiting flowers have cylindrical bracteoles that continue to grow into the fruiting phase. The seeds are dark brown (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000).