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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Trees with flattened branches which may be jointed. Leaves scale-like in 4s, 2 narrow lateral leaves separated by 2 smaller facial leaves with acute spreading tips meeting the base of the next whorl. Seed cones oblong; fertile scales 2 elongated; apex with recurved prickle covering 2 fused upper scales and flanked by 2 small lower scales. Seeds 2 per scale, with 1 large and 1 rudimentary wing. Worldwide: Three species found in moist forests of eastern Asia and western North America. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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