Each plant or group of plants has some phylogenetic siginificance in relation to evolution. Cycas, one of the few living members of gymnosperms is called as the 'relic of past' . Can you establish a phylogenetic relationship of Cycas with any other group of plants that justifies the above statement?

Explanation

Cycas as the relic of past Cycas is an evergreen plant which lookes like a plam. It has unbranched stem and large comound leaf. If exhibit phylogentic relationship whith pteridophyte. Its evolutionary characters are
(i) Slow growth.
(ii) Shedding of seed when the embryo is still immature.
(iii) Little secondary growth and manoxylic wood.
(iv) Leaf like megasporophyllus.
(v) Flagellate sperm even when pollen tube is presetn.
(vi) Persistent leaf bases. ltbr (vii) Circinate ptysix.
(viii) Arrangement of micorspornagia is well defined archegonia.