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Widdringtonia wallichii

a tree, mostly 15–20 or occasionally up to over 60 ft. high, trunk up to 3 or 4 ft. in diam., branches horizontally spreading; ultimate ramifications of the adult plant almost cylindric, 1/2– 5/8 lin. in diam.; leaves of juvenile state unknown, of adult state decussate, squamiform; those of the older branches with an ovate acutely acuminte upwards free and somewhat spreading or appressed free blade, the free portion rarely much over 1 lin. long; those of the ultimate divisions tightly appressed, with the upper part more or less wavy, or slightly spreading so that the contour of the twigs is rarely a straight and unbroken line, rhombic-ovate to rhombic-oblong, about 1 lin. long, subacute at both ends or more obtuse at the lower, the free portion shorter than the adnate, slightly keeled on the back or rounded; male strobiles cylindric-oblong, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, ebracteate and subsessile in the cup formed by the subtending foliage leaves; scales in about 6 decussate pairs, coriaceous, subpeltate, very broadly ovate, minutely apiculate to subobtuse; pollensacs 4, covered by the scales in the strobile; female strobiles in short densely scattered or crowded spikes, 1/4– 1/3 in. long and terminating with a vegetative bud; strobiles at the time of pollination up to over 1 lin. across, exceeding the subtending squamiform broad-ovate acute bract; scales ovate, subacute or obscurely apiculate, stout with a large hump on the face, olive-green; ovules about 3 with each scale, bottle-shaped, broad, compressed, slightly unilaterally winged. Cones 1–3 in a spike, close, and if the spikes are crowded forming occasionally large compact clusters, globose, 1/2– 3/4 in. in diam., dark purplish-brown and usually covered with irregular roundish bosses from among which on each scale rises a stout conical pointed tubercle; valves ultimately slightly spreading, coarsely warty or tubercled along the margins, with a stout conical often pungent mucro (the morphological apex) from below the top, and a usually striated central area; seeds 4–8, stout more or less triquetrous-ovoid, 4 lin. long with a very narrow wing along 2 of the angles and over the tip, almost jet-black and somewhat glossy when mature or paler towards the base with a large white scar corresponding to similar scars at the base of the valves. null