Brachystelma macropetalum flower

The Brachystelma macropetalum flower has five cream to pale green, hairy sepals ending in acute tips that mostly curve in. The sepals are visible, spreading below the long corolla lobes. Sepal shape is narrowly linear and less than half the length of the petals.

The five, long petals or corolla lobes, dominant in the flower appearance, are pale greenish yellow and elegantly curving. Not forming much of a tube, the corolla lobe bases are slightly wider, the lower, triangular sections tapering into the widely spreading, rounded looking long sections that are convex above from margins curving down. The basal parts are faintly dark-spotted. The corolla is hairier on the outside of the lobes than inside.

The flower centre houses the dark purplish staminal column from which the two small coronas emerge. The outer and inner coronas are both five-lobed, the inner one having the longer lobes.

Flowering happens in summer (Onderstall, 1996; JSTOR).