The bracts are wide triangular and surround the main stalk of the flower cluster. After flowering, narrow seedpods appear just below the flower cluster. Four large green, leaf-like bracts surround each flower cluster. "Indicas" have broader, deeply serrated leaves and a compact and dense flower cluster. The flower cluster is an airy panicle long with many branches. Spikelets within the inflorescence (flower cluster) are generally arranged on spicate racemes in pairs.