Inflorescences interfoliar, erect to ascending, branched to one order, prophyll short,
bicarinate, fibrous, hidden in leaf bases, peduncular bract prominent, rostrate, densely spiny adaxially, glabrous abaxially, peduncle densely spiny, rachis shorter than peduncle, not spiny, rachis and rachillae covered with a dense wooly-white tomentum, rachillae entirely covered by staminate flowers, these shallowly sunken in pits, pistillate flowers directly inserted at the base of rachilla or directly on main rachis in between staminate rachillae and without evident connection with them.
stenoura Erect to 2.5-3.5, ovate, (Ecuador) spreading, acuminate, ovate, 4-7 cm
bicarinate, long, red unicarinate sometimes with toward dark apex, red to edges, much purple shorter than spikes T.