Pinales: Abietaceae
from Part III - Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2024
Fairly long-lived, often mountain ridge trees of medium size, with rough-barked trunks. They mostly develop a broad but open-crowned and sometimes gaunt habit with age. The foliage and shoots with rounded leaf scars have a general similarity to Abies, from which plants are clearly distinguished by their rougher bark, high tendency to sprout epicormic shoots, leaves with a midrib (and not groove) prominent above, male cones in umbellate clusters, and female cones long-retained and not dismembering from the tree at maturity.
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