umbel-like

The umbel-like peduncles are situated in the axils of the leaves or spring from the nodes of leafless branches.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

The stalk is a foot and a half in height, erect, with clusters of small, fleshy leaves; flowers yellow, in small, umbel-like clusters.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

_Flowers_ -- Lustreless yellow, about 1/2 in. across, on slender pedicels, in a small umbel-like cluster.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Sterile and fertile flowers on the same tree, appearing when the leaves are fully grown, -- sterile at the base of the season's shoots, in slender, pendulous, downy catkins, 4-8 inches long, usually in threes, branching umbel-like from a common peduncle; scales

Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860

Sterile and fertile flowers on the same tree, appearing when the leaves are fully grown, -- sterile at the base of the season's shoots, in pendulous, downy, slender catkins, 3-5 inches long, usually in threes, branching umbel-like from a common peduncle; scales

Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860