Taxacesee Yew Familys 
Trees or shrubs with evergreen linear leaves; cones of two kinds; 
staminate and ovulate, axillary, borne on the same or on separate plants, 
both subtended by a cluster of scales, the ovulate cone consisting of a 
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single erect ovule which at maturity forms a bony seed surrounded by a 
fleshy cup-like aril. Cotyledons 2. 
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Small trees or shrubs, treelike or sprawling, with scaly bark and 
flat, pointed needles, spirally arranged, but which, due to a twist at 
the base appear as infwo ranks, Staminate cones globose, on a short 
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CO the stamens several, the anthers pendant in a ring about the filament; : 
ovzlate cones inconspicuous, green, forming at maturity a bright red, pulpy, 
cherry-like fruit, the seeds bony. 
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