Femineis; germen oblongum, triquetrum. Stylus capillaris, semibifidus. Stigmata duo, recurvata.
Pericarpium. Calyx immutatus.
Semina. Hermaphroditis solitaria, oblonga, tetragono-ancipitia. Pappus muconibus duobus.
Femineis solitaria, mutica, coronata petalo persistente.
Receptaculum paleaceum; paleis lingulatis, canaliculatis, longitudine calycis, deciduis.
Empalement. Common cylindrically egg-shaped, smooth, and tiled; scales many, blunt, upright, and remaining.
Blossom. Compound radiate; florets with chives and pointals, are numerous in the center, which is elevated; florets with only pointals, many in the circumference.
Individuals with chives and pointals funnel-shaped, five-cleft, and hairy within.
Individuals with pointals only, ligulate, roundish, dented at the end, and remaining.
Chives. Hermaphrodites; five short threads. Tips forming a hollow cylinder.