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Mount Annan Botanic Garden, New South Wales.Apex of male cone after the sporophylls have spread apart to reveal the numerous small brown sporangia (spore-sacs) on their undersides. Most sporangia here seem to have already released their pollen (view at large size).
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Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
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Mount Annan Botanic Garden, New South Wales.Male plant, with mature pollen cone arising from the stem apex.
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Lepidozamia has male cones among the largest of any cycad, around 80 cm long. But its most distinctive character is the way this spiral split develops as the cone axis elongates, pulling the pollen-bearing scales (microsporophylls) apart. As in all cycads, the pollen is released from numerous small sacs (sporangia) borne on the undersides of the scales.
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