The picture is taken in a mountainous region in Southern China. The "flower" looks meaty with "eye balls" near the center. The environment is damp; in shade under bamboos.
No, it cannot be Ochna integerrima. They look quite different. These flowers grow off the ground. I suspect the bamboo-like leaves are from the same plant … Could this be some kind of ginger?
They may be the opened seed capsules of one of the gingers with a ground-hugging inflorescence, like some species of Amomum, Etlingera or Hornstedtia. Unfortunately the fruits are such gingers are rarely photographed, so it may be hard to match them. The green stem at top right may well belong to a ginger. The leaves at left are a creeping grass, probably Oplismenus.
Is there no possibility that the leaves at left belong to the plant? Maybe the plant is not a ginger. If you look near the middle section on the right side of the picture, there is another such stem growing away from the “flowers”. You can tell that the leaves on the right side also have the wavy pattern as the leaves on the left. Certainly these could be suspects at the wrong place wrong time.
Got it. Have a look at page 120 of "Flowers of the Himalaya: A Supplement" by Adam Stainton: Zingiber chrysanthum. There's an extremely small image of it on this page
