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| Term | Definition | |
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| Ament | A spike with closely congested, often apetalous, unisexual flowers; e.g., staminate inflorescences of species of Betulaceae. Same as catkin. Aments are generally associated with wind pollination. |  |
| Androgynous | Referring to inflorescences with both staminate and pistillate flowers, e.g., the inflorescences of Mabea (Euphorbiaceae) with one or a few pistillate flowers at the base and numerous staminate flowers distally. | |
| Annotinous | Referring to structures (e.g., inflorescences) arising from branches of the previous year’s growth. | |
| Anthelae | The panicle of some Cyperaceae and Juncaceae in which the upper branches are overtopped by the lower ones. | |
| Axillary inflorescence | An inflorescence that arises from a leaf axil |  |
| Bilabiate capitulum (head) | Inflorescence of Asteraceae with at least some bilabiate flowers. Restricted to tribe Mutisieae. | |
| Bostryx (plural = bostryches) | See helicoid cyme. | |
| Brachyblast | A short, leafless, lateral axis of limited growth that bears inflorescences. | |
| Calyculate | Referring to species of Asteraceae (especially Senecioneae) possessing a secondary series of bracteoles subtending the primary phyllaries. | |
| Capitellate | Referring to inflorescences in small headlike structures. | |
| Capitulum (plural = capitula) | A dense inflorescence of sessile flowers on a dilated receptacle or in a (sub) globose or head-like form; for example, the inflorescences of Asteraceae, some Cyperaceae, Laminaceae, and Rubiaceae. |  |
| Captiulum (plural = capitula | A dense headlike inflorescence such as that of the Asteraceae and some Cyperaceae, Lamiaceae, and Rubiaceae. Same as head for the Asteraceae. | |
| Catkin | A spike with closely congested, often apetalous, unisexual flowers; e.g., staminate inflorescences of species of Betulaceae. Same as ament. Catkins are generally associated with wind pollination. | |
| Cauliflorous inflorescence | Referring to an inflorescence that arises from the main stem of a plant or trunk of a tree. |  |
| Cauline inflorescence | Refers to flowers or fruits that arise below the leaves from the main trunk of a shrub or tree. |  |
| Cincinnus (plural = cincinni) | A type of helicoid cyme, usually characterized by short internodes. | |
| Conflorescence | The aggregation of several inflorescences into one; e.g., some species of Proteaceae. | |
| Corymb | A more or less flat-topped inflorescence with the lower pedicels longer the upper ones. | |
| Cyathium (plural = cyathia) | An inflorescence consisting of several naked staminate flowers accompanied by usually one naked pistillate flower and subtended and mostly enclosed by a cup-shaped involucre, characteristic of |
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| Cyme | A determinate inflorescence in which growth of the central axis is terminated by a flower that opens first and each branch or pair of branches subtending this flower then is terminated by a single flower. This pattern, when repeated several times, often results in a somewhat flat-topped inflorescence. |  |