Dichotomous Key/Pinophyta

1: Trees or erect or ascending shrubs, 1 meter or more high.
 * 2: Extant (not extinct)...........................................................................Pinales


 * 2: Produces cones or arils.....................................................................Pinales


 * 2: Late Carboniferous, Dutch-Belgian-German Coal area; long, strap-shaped
 * leaves (up to 80 cm in length), parallel venation; grew in coastal environments as
 * swamp plants and in cool temperate forests of Angaraland.......................Cordaitales