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Chapter 33 - Actinostrobus

Cupressales: Cupressaceae S.S.

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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Summary

Much-branched woody shrubs to small trees of spreading to columnar cypress-like form, characterised by abundant slender ascending shoots bearing either spreading leaves or scale leaves. They have freely spreading tips and bunched or solitary long-persistent female cones, each with a basal whorl of sterile scales.

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Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
Pattern, Process and Diversity
 , pp. 578 - 587
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Actinostrobus
  • Christopher N. Page, University of Exeter
  • Book: Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
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  • Online publication: 11 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009262965.037
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