Thick bark and serotiny arose in the Mid-Cretaceous among extant Pinaceae.
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As the largest and the basal-most family of conifers, Pinaceae provides key insights into the evolutionary history of conifers.
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Results: Topologically constrained and unconstrained analyses suggest that the root node of the Agaricomycetes is much older than either the rosids or Pinaceae.
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In twenty specimens of the evergreen Pinaceae the growth was: 1878, 8-10ths; 1879, 7-10ths; 1880, 6-10ths and a half.