Plant Cone
Any conical shaped aerial plant structure with scales or bracts arranged spirally around axis. It includes familiar seed cones of PINE TREE and other GYMNOSPERMS, pollen cones (e.g., microstrobilus), spore capsules in HORSETAIL and CLUBMOSS and mature female catkins or seed cones of ALDER and BIRCH trees. Cone morphology is important in gymnosperm classification.
Year introduced: 2022
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Tree Number(s): A18.024.625
MeSH Unique ID: D000090342
Entry Terms:
- Cone, Plant
- Plant Cones
- Cones, Plant
- Seed Cones
- Cone, Seed
- Seed Cone
- Catkins
- Catkin
- Spore Cones
- Cone, Spore
- Spore Cone
- Microstrobilus
- Microstrobili
- Pine Cone
- Cone, Pine
- Pine Cones
- Strobilus
- Strobili