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Manual of the Southeastern Flora - Small
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1. ORDER PINALES - PINAL ORDER


Shrubs or trees. Leaves scale-like, narrow, or needle-like, and often borne in bundles. Flowers mainly monoecious, the cones of spirally imbricate bracts, or in Taxaceae the ovulate flowers often solitary. Seed borne in a cone of dry or fleshy scales, or partly or wholly naked. - group developed later and more highly organized than the CYCADALES.