 The flowers are with one, two or three together in the axils of the leaves on up to long greenish stalks (or pedicels), which also carry bracts of up to long that are split in three lobes.The individual flowers have an undifferentiated perianth that consists of four or five, rarely six, slightly leathery, white, later yellowish, oval to round, concave tepals of 2½-3½ mm (0.10–0.14 in) in diameter, interlocked with each other at their foot.The many stamens consist of long hairless filaments topped with round anthers of in diameter.