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Wheeleroxylon
Genus Wheeleroxylon Estrada-Ruiz, Mart.-Cabr., Cev.-Ferriz Amer. J. Bot., 97(7): 1181. Jul 2010
- Name
- Wheeleroxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Estrada-Ruiz E.
Martínez-Cabrera H. I.
Cevallos-Ferriz S. R. S.
- Publication
- Upper Cretaceous woods from the Olmos Formation (late Campanian–early Maastrichtian), Coahuila, Mexico [2010/7]
- Journal
- American Journal of Botany
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 7
- Page number
- 1181
- Year
- 2010
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Malvaceae
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Type
- Wheeleroxylon atascosense
- Diagnosis
- Indistinct growth rings; vessels solitary
and in radial multiples of 2 and 3, simple perforation plates;
crowded alternate intervessel pits, polygonal in outline; vesselray
parenchyma pits circular, of two different sizes and with
reduced borders; axial parenchyma vasicentric and scanty paratracheal
and apotracheal diffuse; homocellular rays; nonseptate
libriform fi bers; vessel elements and rays storied.
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