Capitulum

The term capitulum can refer to several things:

• In botany:
  • a type of flower head where the bracts are located under the basis, such as a daisy's
  • the top of a Sphagnum moss plant with compact clusters of young branches
• In zoology:
  • the capitulum of the humerus in vertebrates
  • the gnathosoma of ticks and mites
  • a part of the female Lepidoptera genitalia
  • a structure similar to an elaiosome found on the eggs of some species of stick insects
• A typographic symbol to mark chapters or paragraphs, now evolved into the pilcrow