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Chapter 52 - Wollemia

Araucariales: Agathaceae

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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Medium-sized evergreen, soft-leaved, monoecious rainforest trees, to 25–30+ m when mature, with approximately whorled branch systems and a slender, more or less parallel to conic crown. Their shoot and branch systems are moderately stout, mostly markedly spreading-descending. The lateral shoots with age eventually terminate in small, elongate male or orbicular female cones directly from ultimate branches.

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Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
Pattern, Process and Diversity
 , pp. 267 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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