Lobostemon glaucophyllus in profile
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Thabo Maphisa
The Lobostemon glaucophyllus flower profile presents the shape of its corolla funnel with out-curving tips and contrasting, in-curving sepals. Even when there is no corolla the sepals hold their shape around the dark, dry style.
The leaf in picture is large in comparison with the ring of leafy sepals (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).