Pterygodium nigrescens most flowers still to open

In this apparently “with it” Pterygodium nigrescens floral spike, performing in twist mode, most of the flowers aren’t open yet or only partly so. Some at the top are still even in the throes of resupination, turning upside down by which the lip ends below and the median sepal at the top, as some pterygodiums do.

In the lowermost, open flowers where all tepals have turned brown, lip parts hang below. Before that happens, the flowers, partly buds, are nearly globose.

The somewhat feeble-looking bracts inbetween the flowers are managing to hold their translucent upper parts erect, but most of them have burnt their tips (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).