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
KLAASSENOXYLON
GEN. NOV.
Diagnosis—
Growth rings distinct to indistinct. Wood diffuse-porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Perforation plates exclusively simple; intervessel pits alternate, minute to small; vessel-ray parenchyma pits similar to intervessel pits. Axial parenchyma rare, scanty paratracheal. Fibers with simple pits, septate and non-septate. Rays uniseriate (rarely biseriate), heterocellular. Crystals, if present, in chambered fibers
Etymology—
For René Klaassen, whose monograph on the wood anatomy of the
Sapindaceae
was a major contribution to our understanding of this family.