Bot. [mod.L., f. Gr. κεφαλή + ἄνθος flower.] ‘Name by L. C. Richard for the compound flower of Linnæus, the head or capitulum of modern botanists’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-Bk., 401. Cephalanthium … A synonym of ANTHODIUM.
Hence Cephalanthous a. Bot. having flowers united in heads, as in the Compositæ.
