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This photo shows a portion of the flowering stems of this plant. Three flowers are open, each on its own separate flowering stem. The flowers at nodes below the open ones and senescing and their fruits maturing; and those above the open flower nodes are in bud or nascent (i.e. flowering on each inflorescence stem is acropetal, as in a raceme). Although the frontal view of the open flowers blocks the view of their sepals...in the buds and maturing fruits one can see an intimation of the size difference between the 'flanking' (lateral) pair of sepals and the upper pair of sepals. The flanking sepals are somewhat longer and wider.

Note that the long pedicels have a mostly horizontal disposition...with a slight, gracefully downward-arching overall...and with the flower bending slightly upward at the terminal end of the pedicel. But overall, there isn't much pronounced 'sigmoidicity' here (as there often can be in the pedicels of various Nemacladus plants). I don't know for sure, but the pedicels may become more sigmoid (i.e. deeply J- or S- shaped) as the plant matures and goes mostly into fruit.

Looking carefully at the full-size version of the photo, I can make out (sometimes only vauguely) the glistening, rod-like processes radiating from the near the bases of the two adaxial stamen filaments (i.e. below where those filaments become fused into the staminal tube, which encloses the style...somewhat similar to florets in Asteraceae).