Angelica acutiloba with distinct calyx and white corolla. However, the calyx is often reduced with obsolete calyx teeth. The flowers have five petals, sepals, and stamens. The white petals are often obovate to oblong. The inflorescences contain fifteen to forty-five pubescent rays, 1–10 cm in length, which surround about thirty small disk flowers. The peduncles which hold the entire inflorescence are glabrous or pubescent and 5–20 cm long. While the stalks of each single flower in the flower clusters called pedicels, are thin and often sessile. The whorl of bracts beneath the inflorescences is called involucre. It consists of phyllaries, modified bracts,
Discodermia calyx from it called calyculin A, which is a colorless oil used in a variety of different studies in modern medicine. "D. calyx" belongs to the Animalia family. Its phylum is "Porifera", which is characterizes it as a sponge. "D. calyx" belongs to the class demospongia and the order tetractinallida. The family that it belongs to is theonellida. Finally, the correct binomial nomenclature for this species of sponge is "Discodermia calyx", which indicates its genus and species. "D. calyx" has no colloquial name, as it is known primarily in scientific and medicinal contexts. "D. calyx" is one of a few sponges