Diascia anastrepta flowers

The rosy pink flowers of Diascia anastrepta are two-lipped and five-lobed, rather similar to flowers of D. cordata.

The upper lip is four-lobed; its lateral lobes larger, the top two joined and all four round-tipped. There is a wedge-shaped yellow patch with dark markings in their shared centre. The lower lip is large and rounded at its tip where it curves up. There are two lateral areas of tiny, scattered, black glands in the pink. 

Hairy, cylindrical spurs can be seen protruding from the backs of the lower two flowers. The openings of the spurs are visible in the bases of the flower cups.

A pair of yellow anthers meet in picture, their pink filaments bent in towards each. The other pair of stamens is less clear to see, bent near the base and twisted around the first pair. 

Well-flowering plants may produce many long racemes packed with flowers. Flowering begins in summer and lasts until early autumn. These flowers were photographed early in January (Manning, 2009; iNaturalist).