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Diastella proteoides buds

Diastella proteoides buds
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  • Cymbopappus adenosolen
  • Dermatobotrys saundersii
  • Dianthus  micropetalus
  • Dianthus  micropetalus, locally known as grashout
  • Diastella divaricata subsp. divaricata
  • Diastella divaricata subsp. divaricata
  • Diastella divaricata subsp. divaricata
  • Diastella proteoides
  • Diastella proteoides buds
  • Diastella proteoides flowerhead
  • Diastella proteoides leaves
  • Dichapetalum cymosum
  • Dichapetalum cymosum leaves
  • Dichapetalum cymosum, the notorious gifblaar
  • Dissotis princeps purple flowers
  • Dissotis princeps white flowers
  • Dyerophytum africanum

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When the Diastella proteoides flowerhead is still only buds or closed perianths, the tips are purple ellipsoids. Four pale lines indicate the seams of the segments. One of those seams (on the outside) will be broken when the elongated style escapes to position the pollen presenter above the level achieved by any perianth.

This is when the pollen is ripe and the time arrives for the style to wrestle free from the perianth’s hold. Before the parting, the pollen is transferred from the anthers on the inside of the perianth tips onto the pollen presenters.

The leaves around the flowerhead point up, while the narrow floral bracts, white, tapering and hairy, point outwards in picture from below the flowers (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; http://pza.sanbi.org).

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