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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #021] What are the species of the Chloranthaceae family? Photo list

The Chloranthaceae family consists of herbs or shrubs. The leaves are opposite, simple, serrated, and have stipules at the base of the petiole. The inflorescence is spike-like, terminal or axillary. Flowers are unisexual or bisexual, with bisexual flowers lacking a perianth. There are one or three stamens. In bisexual flowers, the stamens...

2022.07.26

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #020] What are the species of Schisandraceae? Photo List

The Schisandraceae family consists of evergreen or deciduous woody plants, some of which are climbing. The leaves are simple, alternate, and lack stipules. Flowers are usually solitary in the leaf axils, lacking a clear distinction between sepals and petals, and the perianth segments are separate. The fruit is an aggregate fruit, consisting of berries clustered in a spherical or tufted arrangement, or a sac...

2022.07.25

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #012] What are the species of the Taxaceae family? Photo list

The family Taxaceae consists of evergreen trees or shrubs. The leaves are linear to linear-lanceolate, arranged spirally and alternately, but the leaf blades are horizontally arranged in two rows. They are usually dioecious, but occasionally monoecious. Male flowers are borne singly or in small spike-like inflorescences in the leaf axils, while female flowers are borne at the tips of the previous year's branches or on the leaves...

2022.07.25

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07.0040 Hinoki cypress leaf upper surface

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #011] What are the species of the cypress family? Photo list

The Cupressaceae family consists of evergreen, rarely deciduous, trees or shrubs. Leaves are scale-like, needle-like, or linear, arranged alternately, oppositely, or whorled. Flowers are unisexual, monoecious, rarely dioecious. Male flowers are borne at the tips of branches. Female flowers are also often borne at the branch tips and have scale-like structures arranged oppositely or whorled...

2022.07.25

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #010] What are the species of the Sciadopitys family? Photo list

The family Sciadopityaceae consists of evergreen trees. It is a monotypic family, endemic to Japan, comprising only one genus and one species. Molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests it branched off from the Taxaceae and Cupressaceae families in the early to mid-Permian period. Fossil records indicate that it was found in Laurasia, particularly in Europe, for most of the Cenozoic era...

2022.07.24

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #009] What are the species of the Podocarpaceae family? Photo list

The Podocarpaceae family consists of evergreen trees or shrubs. The leaves are flattened linear to ovate, sometimes scale-like, spirally arranged alternately, sometimes oppositely. They are dioecious (having separate male and female plants). Male flowers have numerous stamens spirally arranged on the flower axis. Female flowers have a single ovule at the tip of the receptacle. Many female flowers have fleshy, fleshy scales...

2022.07.23

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07.0025 Japanese Black Pine (Male Flower)

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #007] What are the species of the Pinaceae family? Photo list

The Pinaceae family consists of evergreen, sometimes deciduous, trees or shrubs. The leaves are needle-shaped or linear. The flowers are unisexual and monoecious. Male flowers have numerous stamens arranged spirally. Female flowers consist of numerous scales arranged spirally. Each scale is composed of an outer bract and an inner seed scale, fused at their bases...

2022.07.22

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07.0003.b Kisotengai (a type of sea urchin) - whole form

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #005] What are the species of the Welwitschia family? Photo list

The family Welwitschiaceae includes only one extant species found in southwestern Africa. Fossil evidence indicates that plants of the Welwitschiaceae family existed in South America during the Early Cretaceous (Mesozoic) period, including the Arapaima basin in northeastern Brazil...

2022.07.16

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07.0003.a Futamata-maou (a type of flower) - whole form

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #004] What are the species of the Ephedra family? Photo list

The Ephedraceae family generally consists of shrubs, sometimes vines, and rarely small trees. It includes only the genus Ephedra. It is distributed across southwestern North America, southern Europe, northern Africa, southwestern and central Asia, northern China, and western South America, and is widely found in arid regions. Temperate regions...

2022.07.15

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #003] What are the species of the Ginkgo family? Photo list

The Ginkgoaceae family consists of deciduous trees. The leaves are flattened and spread out, with veins repeatedly branching dichotomously from the base of the petiole, becoming parallel veins that reach the upper leaf margin. They are dioecious; male flowers bear numerous anthers on a slender stalk. Female flowers typically have two ovules facing upwards at the end of the pedicel. Fertilization occurs...

2022.07.14

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