TAXODIACEAE
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1213417E-FFD5-FFD7-CA52-FE644D89CDAA |
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Plazi |
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TAXODIACEAE |
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XXVII. TAXODIACEAE 1
Monoecious; resiniferous trees, rarely shrubs, with spirally arranged leaves. Flowers (cones) made up of numerous spirally arranged scales. Scales of male cones (microsporophylls) bearing 2-8 pollen-sacs on the lower surface. Scales of female cones (megasporophylls) bearing 2-12 ovules on the upper surface; subtending scale (bract) indistinct, wholly or partially united with the cone-scale. Fruit a more or less woody cone. Seeds winged. 1 Leaves of lateral twigs linear to linear-oblong, flat, distichous
2 Deciduous; leaves pale green 3. Taxodium 2 Evergreen; leaves dark green 1. Sequoia 1 All leaves subulate
3 Leaves radially arranged, appressed or slightly patent at the apex, triangular in section; cones 5-8 cm, ovoid
2. Sequoiadendron 3 Leavesin5 ranks,patent,incurved, quadrangular insection; cones 1 -25-2- 5 cm, subglobose 4. Cryptomeria
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