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—Fruit an indehiscent nut or drupe, either 1-seeded or if 2-seeded the seeds separated by a complete dissepiment continuous with the endocarp. Flowers usually solitary within each bract, in cones or spikes or solitary, very rarely racemose, the spikes often shortened into heads.

&mdash;Anthers all perfect, or very rarely the upper one abortive, with 2 parallel cells adnate to the connectivum, inserted at the base of the short spreading lamin&aelig of the perianth. Ovule 1 or in a very few species a second one more or less developed. Stigma at the point of the straight style end. Fruit a dry nut.