Megasporophylls deeply pectinate and densely covered with hairs.
2.
Megasporophylls are not gathered in cones.
3.
Megasporophylls are thickly covered in orange indumentum and the developing seeds have an intensely glaucous sarcotesta.
4.
In heterosporous members, megasporophylls and microsporophylls may be intermixed or separated in a variety of patterns.
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If the plant is heterosporous, the sporangia-bearing leaves are distinguished as either microsporophylls or megasporophylls.
6.
The megasporophylls are about 30 cm long, fleshy, brown and densely hairy, with the fertile area about wide.
7.
The sporophylls are not in vertical rows in cones, and the megasporophyll apices are broadly flattened, upturned, and overlapping.
8.
As with other cycads, it is dioecious, with the males bearing pollen cones ( strobilus ) and the females bearing groups of megasporophylls.
9.
"Zamia " sporophylls are born in vertical rows in cones, and the megasporophyll apices are faceted or flattened, not spinose.
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Megasporangia are formed within ovules, which are borne on megasporophylls, which are aggregated into strobili on separate plants ( all cycads are dioecious ).
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