Moraea gawleri flower and anther

This is one of the flower colours one can expect from Moraea gawleri. The inflorescence on wiry stems may be branched.

The six tepals bend down abruptly around the middle, the outer three bearing yellow nectar guides, in this case with pronounced brown fringes. All the tepals have vein lines to the upper margins, the ones on the outer tepals darker.

The similarly coloured, erect style crests are similarly coloured to the tepals but lack the vein lines.

It is not often that one sees an exposed anther. They are usually concealed by the style branches (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).