Compsostrobus
authorship:
Delevoryaz & Hope, 1973
rank:
morphogenus
morphotaxon organ:
female cone
Type species: Compsostrobus neoreticus Delevoryaz & Hope, 1973
Pinaceae
Unranked:
Pinaceae
Pinaceae Lindl. 1836
nomenclatorial act:
subsequent publication
Page:
134
diagnosis:
Plants: Monoecious. Ovulate cones: Compound; cone bracts spirally arranged, flattened, tongueshaped, free from scale, with a single vascular strand; ovuliferous scales flattened; ovules 2, inverted, proximal, fused to ovuliferous scale, with a single vascular strand dividing up to 20 times, micropyle laterally directed; seeds typically winged, rarely unwinged (e.g. Pinus pinea), wing descended from ovuliferous scale.
systematic position:
Pinopsida, Pinales
