Voltzialean plants with compact ovulate cones bearing bilateral bract-scale complexes; sterile bracts free or partially fused with dwarf shoots, simple; ovuliferous dwarf shoots with 1-15 sterile scales and 2 or 3 variously shaped, flattened fertile scales; ovules one per fertile scale, laterally attached, inverted (adapted from Clement-Westerhof 1988)
systematic position:
Pinopsida, Voltziales
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith