Ixia dubia bud among flowers

The angularly barrel-shaped bud protruding among open flowers in the Ixia dubia inflorescence, a compact spike, has several colours blending gradually into each other. Not as bright as the yellow insides of the open perianths, the closed bud's outside presents a less inviting appearance, in spite of its wider colour variety.

Three yellow anthers are erect and thread-like with curving tips in each open flower centre. Their filaments are short and dark coloured to invisible below, the thinner and shorter style in picture skew but also yellow (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Bean and Burman, 1985; iNaturalist).