| 41. | The leaf-like bract is 1.8 to 4 cm.
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| 42. | The bracts are quite different and smaller than the leaves.
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| 43. | The mature bracts have a light resinous aromatic odor reminiscent of hops.
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| 44. | Each spikelet has around ten flowers enclosed in dark bracts.
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| 45. | The flowers are usually white, emerging from coloured bracts.
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| 46. | The rachillae bear short round bracts subtending triads of large flowers throughout.
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| 47. | The inflorescence is an open array of flower heads amidst leaflike bracts.
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| 48. | Branchlets containing the flowering heads emerge from axils at the main bracts.
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| 49. | Pale-colored flowers emerge from between the overlapping bracts.
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| 50. | Inflorescence bracts are papery and golden-yellow in colour.
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