subterminal

The zoœcia are tubular and have a terminal or subterminal orifice, which is angulate or subangulate as seen from above.

Moreover the conelet is usually, perhaps always, subterminal in P. occidentalis.

The mouth is seldom round; it is often subterminal, opening by a transverse slit.

On uninodal branchlets they form an apical group consisting of a terminal bud with a whorl of subterminal buds about its base.

Conelets subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine.