Compilation
Duvalia parviflora

stems about 1 in. long and 1/2 in. thick, oblong, very obtusely and somewhat obscurely 5(–6?)-angled, light green, mottled with dull purple, faintly glaucous, angles rather obscurely indented above each minute tooth, or obscurely and distantly tessellate-tuberculate; flowers 4–5 together, successively developed near the apex of the stems; pedicels 1/6– 1/3 in. long; sepals 3/4–1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla about 5–7 lin. in diam., “cream-colour, with the apical half of the lobes pale purple” (Pillans); lobes 2–2 1/2 lin. long, very spreading, closely replicate to the base into vertical plates 3/4 lin. deep, glabrous, ciliate with a few very minute simple cream-coloured hairs at the base only; annulus 1 1/2–2 lin. in diam., raised about 1/4 lin. above the level of the lobes, obtusely pentagonal, glabrous, the top quite covered (without leaving a margin) by the equally large outer corona; “outer and inner coronas straw-coloured, anthers purple” (Pillans). null