A late Eocene wood assemblage from the Crooked River Basin, Oregon, USA
Author
Wheeler, Elisabeth A.
Author
Manchester, Steven R.
Author
Baas, Pieter
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PaleoBios
2023
2023-11-01
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/p9401462457
journal article
10.5070/P9401462457
0031-0298
PLERANDREOXYLON
WHEELER & MANCHESTER 2002
EMEND
WHEELER
,
MANCHESTER
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BAAS
Emended diagnosis—
Wood semi-ring-porous to ring-porous. Earlywood vessels in multiple rows, usually less than 100 µm in tangential diameter; latewood vessels in discontinuous wavy tangential bands or diagonal to oblique arrangement. Perforations simple or simple and scalariform with fewer than 20 bars; intervessel pits alternate to scalariform, medium to large in horizontal diameter; vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders to simple.
Fibers septate or septate and non-septate.
Axial parenchyma rare to scanty paratracheal.
Rays multiseriate, less than 10-seriate and averaging less than 700 µm high, heterocellular, sheath cells occasionally present; uniseriate rays not common; fewer than 10 rays per mm.
Crystals, oil/mucilage cells, storied structure, and radial canals absent.