Examples include many species of daisy family (Asteraceae). The second order inflorescences (PO:0025240) of compound capitulum inflorescences are often called glomerules.

An inflorescence (PO:0009049) with a monopodial growth habit, which at flowering stage (PO:0007616) is composed of a radially-enlarged inflorescence axis (PO:0020122), and sessile flowers (PO:0009046) on determinate higher order inflorescence axes (PO:0009081) with basal involucral bracts (PO:0009045).