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Tapirira peninsularis
Tapirira peninsularis Mart.-Cabr., Cev.-Ferriz I.A.W.A. J., 25(1): 107. Jan 2004
- Name
- Tapirira peninsularis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Tapirira
- Authors (Pub.)
- Martínez-Cabrera H. I.
Cevallos-Ferriz S. R. S.
- Publication
- A new species of Tapirira (Anacardiaceae) from early Miocene sediments of the El Cien Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico [2004/1]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 107
- Year
- 2004
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Strat. comment
- Cerro Colorado member of the El Cien Formation; 27–17 mya
- Location
- Cañada El Canelo, northern Baja California Sur, México.
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, México, México
- Repository Number
- IGM-LPB 112–125
- Diagnosis
- Diffuse-porous wood, growth rings marked by 3–5 lattened latewood
ibers; vessels mainly solitary and in radial multiples (2–4 cells); intervascular
pits alternate and oval to polygonal in outline, vessel-ray pits circular, angular and horizontally
to vertically elongated, reduced borders to simple; libriform septate ibers,
1–3 septa per iber; heterocellular rays, radial canals with 2–4 rows of epithelial cells;
paratracheal parenchyma scanty and vasicentric.
