Genus Walchia Sternberg 1825 emend.
nomenclatorial act:
emend.
Page:
110
diagnosis:
Ovuliferous cone compound, cylindric; cone axis bearing spirally arranged bracts with forked apices; ovuliferous dwarf-shoots freely arising in bractils, not reaching apices of bracts, (radially to) bilaterally symmetrical, slightly flattened, provided with a number of sterile scales and a single fertile scale, emerging on the adaxial side. Shape of sterile scales ranging from narrow-subtriangular to lanceolate.
systematic position:
Conifers, Walchiaceae
typeseries:
Type-species (selected by Miller, 1889, p.149): Walchiapiniformis Sternberg 1825.