Flowers and fruits sessile in crowded heads. Bracts and sepals neither ciliate nor fimbriate.
| | Key to the forms | |
| 1 | Fruit ovoid; floral bracts almost horizontal. Fruit usually <5 mm long and >3 mm diam. Widespread. NC CC SC CT NWS; Qld, Vic., Tas., W.A. | f. glabella |
| 1 | Fruit pyriform to fusiform, base clasped by almost vertical floral bracts. Fruit usually >5 mm long and <3 mm diam. Widespread in Aust., in N.S.W. only recorded from Twofold Bay area. SC; Vic., Tas., S.A., W.A. | f. dispar |
