Lapeirousia jacquinii flower bracts and tubes
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Thabo Maphisa
The bracts enclosing the bases of the Lapeirousia jacquinii flower tubes spiral around their shared, creamy yellow stalk.
These bracts are broad, short and curving to blunt tips, two-keeled near the base. They are longitudinally lined and yellow-green, marked by white patches near each bract base (Manning, 2007; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).