• Female cones are developed laterally in the axils of scale leaves.

• They are usually produced in clusters in place of shoots of unlimited growth and on different branches from the male cones.

• Female cones are much bigger, woody, dry and hard structures. Each female cone has central axis to which are attached megasporophylls.

• Each meagsporphyll on its upper surface have two ovules. Each megasporophyll has an outer small bract scale and a large ovulifervous scale. Bract scale arises directly from the bract scale.

• The ovule arises as a group of cells which form rounded hump of tissue termed the nucellus (megasporganum). From the base of nucellus an endosing integument grows up which does not enclose nucellus completely but leaves an opening the micropyle which leads to the outer end of nucellus.

• Megaspore mother cell undergoes reduction division producing four megaspores arranged in a row each with haploid number of chromosomes.