
Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas - Radford, Ahles, Bell
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Monoecious or dioecious, evergreen trees or shrubs; leaves in opposite pairs of in whorls of three, scale-like or lance-like, mature female cones leathery, or woody, or berry-like of fused scales.