Cyphomeris

Fruits developing from cleistogamous flowers

Fruits developing from cleistogamous flowers

Basal foliage. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone.

Cauline foliage. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone.

Cleistogamous inflorescence. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone.

Cleistogamous inflorescence. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone.

Fertile immature fruit from cleistogamous inflorescence. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone. Note gibbous, warty nature of the fruit.

Fertile mature fruit from cleistogamous inflorescence. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone. Note gibbous, warty nature of the fruit.

Fertile mature fruit from cleistogamous inflorescence. Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone. Note gibbous, warty nature of the fruit.

Plants in silty pockets among gravels on crest of low ridge of sandy limestone. Note sticky intermodal band on stems below inflorescence, a not uncommon feature of some members of this family. Despite many speculations, the purpose of the bands remians unknown.