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Chapter 69 - Microcachrys

Podocarpales: Microcachrydaceae

from Part III - Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2024

Christopher N. Page
Christopher N. Page
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University of Exeter
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Low-creeping, much-branched evergreen shrubs, with opposite and decussate pairs of small scale leaves on shoots of tetragonal sectional shape. Linearly ranked minute leaves are arrayed along shoots which have a tendency to produce markedly spear-shaped branchlet clusters. Female cones at maturity are conspicuously red and fleshy, their external aspects finely puckered, resembling the exterior of a small, mature strawberry.

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Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
Pattern, Process and Diversity
 , pp. 542 - 554
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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Microcachrys
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  • Book: Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
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