Cycadeoidea (English spelling)

Japanese: キカデオイデア(英語表記)Cycadeoidea
Cycadeoidea (English spelling)
A fossil plant belonging to the gymnosperm Cycad order Bennettiales. It flourished in the Early Cretaceous. Its external shape is very similar to cycads, but its flowers resemble those of the Magnoliaceae family of angiosperms. The fossilized leaves are diamond-shaped and arranged in a spiral. Multicellular scale hairs grow densely between the petiole scars. Vascular bundles can be seen aligned along a regular outline on the petiole scars. It has streak tracheids like ferns. Most trunks are unbranched and clumpy. Large ones with a diameter of 0.5 m and a length of 4 m are known. Flowers have not yet been found in Japanese species, but foreign species are known to have many flowers (bisexual flowers) in the leaf axils.

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Japanese:
裸子植物ソテツ綱ベネチテス目に属する化石植物。白亜紀前期に繁茂した。外形はソテツ類によく似ているが,花は被子植物のモクレン科のものに似た点がある。落葉のあとが菱形をし,螺旋状に配列する。葉柄痕の間には多細胞の鱗毛が密生する。葉柄痕には一定の輪郭にそろって並ぶ維管束が見られる。シダ類のように階紋仮道管をもつ。樹幹は分枝せず塊状のものが多い。直径 0.5m,長さ 4mという巨大なものも知られている。日本産のものからは,まだ花が見出されていないが,外国産のものには,多数の花(両性花)を葉腋にもつものが知られている。

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