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Strobilus
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cone

 or strobilus

In botany, a mass of scales or bracts, usually ovate, containing the reproductive organs of certain non-flowering plants. A distinguishing feature of pines and other conifers, the cone is roughly analogous to the flower of other plants. Cones (strobili) are also found on club mosses and horsetails.

strobilus [′sträb·ə·ləs]
(botany)
A conelike structure made up of sporophylls, or spore-bearing leaves, as in Equisetales.
The cone of members of the Pinophyta.
Strobilus 

a sporebearing spikelet on the end of a shoot in many higher plants, including the Lycopodiophyta, Sphenophyl-lales, Calamitales, Equisetum, and Spermatophyta. Strobili bear sporophylls, which are the modified leaves upon which the spore-bearing organs—sporangia—develop. Cones are regarded by some botanists to also be strobili, whereas other botanists believe that they are entire aggregates of strobili (inflorescences).
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EQUISETACEAE Michaux ex DeCandolle EQUISETUM Linnaeus Horsetail or Scouring Rush Rhizomes with nodal buds; aerial stems green with whorls of reduced, nonfunctional leaves; internodes hollow; strobili terminal.
Pteridophytes of southeast Alabama: Dichotomous keys, illustrations ... by Woods, Michael; Diamond, Alvin R., Jr / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
Stems hollow, jointed, and ridged; leaves inconspicuous and sheathed around stem; sporangia in cone-like strobili terminating stem Equisetaceae 4.
PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS by Spaulding, Daniel D.; Whetstone, R. David; Ballard, J. Mark / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
 
 
 
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