| From an underground, thick, oblique rhizome, the short, green, succulent stipites arise, in a tufted form, and are crinite with brown, subulate, shining scales. |
| The stipites throughout the genus are conspicuously dilated for about half their length from the base upward, the other portion of them being comparatively very narrow. |
| Thrips mouthparts comprise a mouthcone, consisting of the labrum, labium, a pair of maxillary stipites and laciniae, and another stylet that is a slender left mandible. |
