Palms: Cycads:

• 3-merous flowers

• carpels

• no circinate vernation of leaves

• storage in seeds is endosperm

• double fertilization

• sperm w/out flagella

• monocot wood with scattered vascular bundles

• no perianth, just scales or bracts

• no carpels

• circinate vernation of the leaves

• seed storage is megagametophyte

• no double fertilization

• flagellated sperm

• gymnosperm wood with tracheids, growth rings

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