Definitions for "Capitula"
a head of flowers
an inflorescence that consists of closely packed flowers or florets which have no stalks and arise on a flattened axis, all on the same level.It is surrounded by an involucre of bracts giving it the appearance of a single flower.
heads of sessile flowers, surrounded by an involcure of bracts, corolla : the petals as a whole.
See Capitulum.