# Head

**Source**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/head
**Parent**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/

a [racemose](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/raceme "an inflorescence of stalked flowers whose growing point continues to add to the inflorescence so that the youngest flowers are nearest the apex.") [inflorescence](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/inflorescence "a group of flowers borne on one stem; the way in which flowers are arranged on a stem.") of [sessile](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/sessile "without a stalk (pedicel, peduncle, or petiole).") flowers crowded together on a [receptacle](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/receptacle "the part of the axis which bears the floral parts;") and usually surrounded by an [involucre](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/involucre "a whorl or several whorls of bracts surrounding an inflorescence, a flower or a cone;").

## Related terms

- [Raceme](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/raceme)

- [Inflorescences](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/image/inflorescences "(a) Panicle; (b) Thyrse; (c) Raceme; (d) Spike; (e) Corymb; (f) Simple Umbel; (g) Compound Umbel; (h) Capitulum (Head); (i) Dichasium; (j) Monochasium - bostryx; (k) Monochasium - cincinnus.")
- [Capitulum (head)](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/image/head "Capitulum (head).")