Each spikelet has one fertile floret and one or two sterile florets. Each spikelet contains one fertile floret, and usually one sterile floret. Some marginal florets may have no petals at all (filiform floret). The spikelets are cuneate with one fertile floret. The spikelets consist of a single awnless floret with a 3-nerved lemma. They terminate in small spikelets, which each contain a single fertile floret. Each floret may be subtended by a bract, called a "palea" or "receptacular bract". It is the lowermost of two chaff-like bracts enclosing the grass floret. There are 4 stamens in each floret, and 1 notched long stigma. If pollinated, the fertile floret produces an oblong-elliptic brown seed long. Each ray floret is anatomically an individual flower with a single large petal. Stamens and carpels are not regularly present in each flower or floret. Cichorieae all have milky latex and flowerheads that only contain one type of floret. The awn on each floret is bent and twisted. Each single flower in a head is called a floret.