Category: C

A compact cluster of ± sessile flowers; the capitulum may be surrounded by specialised bracts, the involucre. A short head. A compact cluster of more or less sessile flowers. A dense head of tiny flowers without individual stalks (as in the Daisy and Teasel families), surrounded by an involucre of bracts. The rounded end of…

An aggregation of capitula as found in the Compositae/Asteraceae, usually simply referred to as an inflorescence.  

Head-like, like the head of a pin (e.g. for a stigma); Collected into heads of flowers (as in Compositae/Asteraceae) [unusual term].  

Diminutive of capitate.  

Head-like; like the head of a pin (e.g. for a stigma); Collected into heads of flowers (as in Compositae/Asteraceae or Leguminosae). Having a globular apex, like a pin’s head, or forming a head. The largest of the eight small carpal bones in the wrist. Bone of the hand; used to describe rounded shape of structures.…

Very slender, hair-like.  

Very slender, hair-like in shape. Any one of the minute vessels that connect the arterioles and venules, forming a network in nearly all parts of the body. Their walls act as semipermeable membranes for the interchange of various substances, including fluids, between the blood and tissue fluid; called also vas capillare. Small, thin-walled blood vessels connecting…

Shaped like a canoe, i.e. shortly canaliculate, but with the ends swept up and not grooved (e.g. of pyrenes in some Rubiaceae).