Lessertia frutescens flowers

The stalked flowers of Lessertia frutescens nod. The corollas are large, soft and bright red below, the oblique calyces sturdier above with angularly pointed lobes, not quite equal. The bulging top part of the calyx is shiny, darker red than the corolla and white dotted, more intensely near and on its lobes.

The keel is sharply folded and pointing down. The tip of the shorter banner is lifted outwards, its margins wavy.

The whitish velvety stem in picture is ridged (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).