Minor spines are strongly deflexed and much shorter. The ovary is simple and triangular shaped with three erect or deflexed styles. The deflexed, or drooping falls, are obovate, or cuneate (wedge) shaped. The large aperture is oblique and deflexed above. The main panicle branches are appressed while spikelets are deflexed and solitary. If the head is in a deflexed position, the risk of entrapment is increased. These bows could be reflexed, deflexed, decurved, or straight. The flowers are white or pinkish, becoming brown and deflexed as the corolla fades. Bracts absent, or rarely 1-2; bracteoles 5-8, shorter than pedicels, ciliate, eventually deflexed.