Ernestiodendron
genus
Type species: Ernestiodendron filiciforme (Sternberg, 1825) Florin 1934
genus
Type species: Ernestiodendron filiciforme (Sternberg, 1825) Florin 1934
morphogenus
Type species: Timanostrobus muravievii Meyen, 1997
genus
Type species: Kungurondendron sharovii Meyen, 1997
genus
Type species: Concholepis harrisii Meyen, 1997
Presumed main axis leafy at younger stage. Lateral shoot syst ems pinnat ely branched, consisting of a penultimate branch with two lateral series of parallel ultimate branches situated in one plane. Tripinnate shoot systems may also occur. Leaves bifacial, spirally arranged, sometimes heterophyllous.
Voltzialean plants with compact ovulate cones bearing bilateral bract-scale complexes; sterile bracts free, simple or forked; ovuliferous dwarf shoots with 10-30 sterile scales and one or more broad, flattened fertile scales; ovules one per fertile scale, laterally attached, inverted (adapted from Clement-Westerhof 1988; Mapes & Rothwell 1991)