the young female flower head is oblong to cylinder-shaped and about long. the involucral leaves are often ivory in colour and may conceal the head. inflorescences can be either yellow or red.the bract subtending the individual female flower is softly hairy, transversely oblong, about long and broad. the perianth tube of the female flower is covered with long soft hairs, about long, and compressed. the segments in the middle part are about long, line-shaped, and covered with long soft hairs. the four segments in the higher part are long, oblong, and covered with long soft hairs. the staminodes are long and line-shaped. the style is hairless, about long, line-shaped but broadening towards the cut-off stigma. the ovary is covered with long soft hairs, compressed oblong in shape, and about long. it is subtended by four line-shaped scales of long. the mature female head is egg-shaped, long, and nearly across. the mature bracts are covered with densely matted woolly hairs on the outside. the fruits are elliptic, about long, compressed, with a hairless and wrinkled surface.