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Bennettitales General Characters

Bennettitales were Mesozoic plants that existed from the Triassic to Cretaceous periods and had stout or slender stems with wide pith and manoxylic wood. They bore mostly pinnately compound leaves with syndetocheilic stomata on sinuous epidermal cell walls. Their reproductive organs developed in leaf axils and included hermaphroditic or unisexual flowers with male organs as synangia or fused microsporophylls surrounding ovule-bearing megasporophyll receptacles bearing numerous stalked ovules under bract scales with a micropylar shield.

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Bennettitales General Characters

Bennettitales were Mesozoic plants that existed from the Triassic to Cretaceous periods and had stout or slender stems with wide pith and manoxylic wood. They bore mostly pinnately compound leaves with syndetocheilic stomata on sinuous epidermal cell walls. Their reproductive organs developed in leaf axils and included hermaphroditic or unisexual flowers with male organs as synangia or fused microsporophylls surrounding ovule-bearing megasporophyll receptacles bearing numerous stalked ovules under bract scales with a micropylar shield.

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Bennettitales General Characters

 These extinct Mesozoic plants present on the earth from Triassic to


Cretaceous.
 (Age of Cycads’.)
 Members of this group are found either as compressions or petrifactions.
 The stems were stout or slender and had a wide pith.
 The stem grew very slowly and had manoxylic wood.
 Leaves were mostly pinnately compound, and only occasionally simple.
 Syndetocheilic type of stomata were present.
 The wall of the epidermal cells was sinuous.
 Reproductive organs were organised in the form of hermaphrodite (e.g.
Cycadeoidea) or unisexual (e.g. Wielandiella).
 The ‘flowers’ developed in the axil of leaves.
 Male reproductive organs were borne in a whorl. They were free or
fused, entire or pinnately compound.
 Microsporangia in the form of synangia.
 Microsporophyll’s sometimes surrounded megasporophylls forming
hermaphrodite “flowers”.
 Ovules were numerous and stalked and borne on a conical, cylindrical or
dome-shaped receptacle.
 Many inter-seminal bracts were present on the ovule containing
receptacle.
 The scales or bracts were united at end to form shield through which
micropyle protrudes.
 Seeds were dicotyledonous.

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