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capitulum
A dense inflorescence of unstalked flowers shaped like a globe, such as a buttonbush, Cephalanthus; or sometimes shaped flat, as in Compositae.
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capitulum (1) A dense, short, compact cluster of sessile flowers (stalkless and attached directly at the base), as in composite plants or clover. (2) A very dense grouping of flower buds, as in broccoli.
capitulum search for term- n. (L. capitulum, small head) an infloresence forming a head of sessile flowers or florets crowned together on a receptacle and usually surrounded by an involucre.capsule search for termcapsule - n. (L.
The flowering part of a plant, or mode of flowering. Inflorescences may be of many kinds: spike, panicle, umbel, capitulum, corymb, cyme and spadix.
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the blooms are closely packed along a vertical stem; an umbel or a corymb, where the blooms form a flattened dome; the complex hierarchical arrangement called a panicle, or the tightly packed disc flowers in the center of a daisy, called a capitulum.
 See also: Inflorescence, Stem, Plant, Flower, Genera
  
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