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The conifers

The conifer twigs of the Lower Permian often resemble the branches of the extant Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla), but they are not closely related to this plant. They bear rigid, needle-like to elongated triangular, decurrent leaflets, which are often S-shaped.
The axes of the penultimate order are more or less branched like a feather: they bear two rows of parallel twigs all lying in the same plane.

Just what is Walchia?              

Walchia piniformis

Otovicia hypnoides

Culmitzschia speciosa

Culmitzschia goeppertiana

Ernestiodendron filiciforme

More species and summery

Male cones (Walchianthus)

Female cones (Walchiostrobus)

Gomphostrobus bifidus

Seed of a conifer

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