The inflorescence is ovoid, long and broad, with a basal whorl of spiny bracts. The outer whorl has three sepals and the inner whorl has three petals. One bract within this whorl is a sterile bract. Underneath the flowers is a whorl of bracts. There are six bracts in a whorl below the peduncle. Perianth of one whorl of three largely united segments. It is a calyx-like extra whorl of floral appendages. The stamens of the third whorl has 2 glands near its base. Bracts that appear in a whorl subtending an inflorescence are collectively called an involucre. Atop the lid was a censer with a lid and a small spindle whorl. In the first floral whorl only A-genes are expressed, leading to the formation of sepals. There are six to 40 stamens in one whorl. The carpels often exist as a flat single whorl. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. The definition of a whorl is hairs that rotate round an axis.