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Chapter 17 - Amentotaxus

Taxales: Cephalotaxaceae

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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Dioecious, evergreen, slow-growing, resiniferous woody slender trees, attaining moderate size, of monopodial habit when young but becoming of more or less gracefully irregular habit with maturity, with spreading to pendulous large sickle-shaped leaves which are conspicuously white-banded beneath. It differs from the much more common Cephalotaxus vegetatively in its larger and broader more horizontally held leaves, and reproductively in its simpler seed-bearing structures but more complexly structured male ones.

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Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
Pattern, Process and Diversity
 , pp. 352 - 361
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  • Amentotaxus
  • Christopher N. Page, University of Exeter
  • Book: Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
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