. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 160 CONIFERALES (RECENt) [CH. Acmopyle. This generic name was given to an imperfectly investigated New- Caledonian Conifer formerly known as Dacrydium Pancheri. The sessUe, decurrent, falcate leaves on the lateral branches (1—1-6 cm. x 2-5 mm.) are a characteristic feature, those on the main axis being small and scale-like^.. A B Fig. 708. A, Dacrydium elatum. B, Dacrydium araucarioides. (From specimens in the British Museum.) Pherosphaera. The vegetative shoots resemble those of Microcachrys and some Lycopods. The genus is pe
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 160 CONIFERALES (RECENt) [CH. Acmopyle. This generic name was given to an imperfectly investigated New- Caledonian Conifer formerly known as Dacrydium Pancheri. The sessUe, decurrent, falcate leaves on the lateral branches (1—1-6 cm. x 2-5 mm.) are a characteristic feature, those on the main axis being small and scale-like^.. A B Fig. 708. A, Dacrydium elatum. B, Dacrydium araucarioides. (From specimens in the British Museum.) Pherosphaera. The vegetative shoots resemble those of Microcachrys and some Lycopods. The genus is peculiar among the Podocarpineae in the absence of an epimatium. Sinnott^ regards the megastrobOi, composed of 2—5 one-' seeded scales, as 'the last step in reduction," but the difficulty is to discriminate between simplicity as a primitive and as a reduction-phenomenon. Phyllo- dadua (fig. 675). The cladodes have a central rib and several vascular 1 Pilger (03) p. 117. Mr Sahni (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) has in prepar- ation an account of Acmopyle based on material collected in New Caledonia by Mr Compton. 2 Sinnott(13)p. 73; see also Masters (93) p. 6; Hooker. J. D., Icon. Plant., 1882, PI. 1383; Baker and Smith (10).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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