Various mechanisms for fractures of the capitate have been postulated. Sometimes it fuses with the capitate or the trapezoid. The female flowers contain an ovary with a broad, capitate or rarely bilobed scar. Some being continued to the capitate. They similarly have capitate flower heads rather than spikes. Male flowers terminate the peduncle with capitate clusters. The flowers are arranged in flower spikes or capitate flower heads. The ovary is superior, with axial placentation, with capitate or lobed stigma. The joint between the index metacarpal and the capitate is a fibrous non-mobile joint. Ovary sessile; stigmas small, dish-shaped or capitate. The style is short or absent, and the stigma is head-shaped (capitate). Ovaries may be inferior or superior, the style often long and stigma capitate (pin headed). The style does not extend beyond the scales of the throat and a capitate stigma. The ovary is attached by a filiform style to a small, capitate stigma. If x-rays show that the capitate fracture fragments are out of alignment, surgery is indicated.