Pedicels are up to 10 mm long and have a filiform bracteole.

A small bract is called a bracteole or bractlet.

Each flower is subtended by a bracteole and the corollas are contorted.

The first flower is generally borne on a pedicel, sometimes with a simple, lanceolate bracteole ( 1.5 cm long).

A prophyll is a leaf-like structure, such as a bracteole, subtending a single flower or pedicel.

Each has a small bracteole, three sepals forming a cylindrical tube, and a three-lobed corolla.

The inflorescence is usually a single, rounded, brownish-black head with densely crowded florets and a hairy bracteole margin.

This interpretation was determined based on observations of morphological charactestics namely the appearance of a two-keeled bracteole and its positioning.

Five groups (one group at the base of each bracteole) of extremely reduced male flowers, which each consist of a single anther on a stem.

The male flowers are arranged in clusters of up to 32, each flower held in a cuplike rachilla bract with a two-keeled bracteole.

The staminate flowers are solitary borne, on second and third order branches, subtended by a tiny, tubular, triangular bract and a two keeled bracteole.

Female flowers are usually borne in clusters of two to four but may be solitary, and, like the male's, are carried in cuplike bracts with two-keeled bracteoles, with the occasional barely developed second bracteole.