Cleretum bellidiforme low fruit presentation

The soft, drying Cleretum bellidiforme fruits are heavy for their long stalks, borne near the ground like candlesticks on long-arm chandeliers. The upper surfaces of the ovaries appear yellowish through the devastated petal remains, the sepals here red at their broad bases, green with water-cells at their variably rounded tips.

The long pedicels (flower stalks) are straight, water-cells on their surfaces. When Cleretum and Dorotheanthus were still separate genera, the flower stalks of the latter were distinguished by being straight, those of Cleretum S-shaped. Stalk-shape loses out here against DNA and probably flower and fruit features as factors dominant in species definition (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996).