Schizocarphus nervosus flowers

The numerous small, white flowers of Schizocarphus nervosus grow in a stem-tip raceme on an about erect peduncle. There are tiny whitish bracts at the bases of the wiry, long pedicels, creamy in colour and ascending or incurving. The raceme broadens markedly in the part where the flowers are busy opening and the pedicels bend outwards, widening their angle from the axis. The green-striped, globose buds at the top still cohere on straight pedicels.

The six white tepals of each flower are ovate, concave on top and spreading widely around the superior ovary that is dark green and globose in the flower centre. The six stamens have white filaments and green anthers in picture.

Flowering happens in spring and summer.

The generic name, Schizocarphus, is derived from the Greek words schizo- meaning split and karphos meaning dry, withered material like straw or splinters, probably referring to the membranous fruit capsules that dehisce per locule when ripe (Pooley, et al, 2025; Manning, 2009; Trauseld, 1969; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).