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| | Non-Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | The Cycadaceae are woody, unbranched or sparsely branched, palmlike, dioecious, seed-bearing trees or shrubs with thick, pithy stems. |
 | | The leaves are alternate, spirally arranged in a cluster at the summit of the stem, frondlike, pinnately compound, usually stiff, often with sharply pointed leaflets that have a single midvein (without laterals) and exhibit circinnate vernation. |
 | | Though not visible here, each scale has many microsporangia scattered over the lower surface. |
| www.botany.hawaii.edu /faculty/carr/cycad.htm (314 words) |
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