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Nishidaxylon
Genus Nishidaxylon K. Takah., Mits. Suzuki I.A.W.A. J., 24(3): 286. 2003
- Name
- Nishidaxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Takahashi K.
Suzuki M.
- Publication
- Dicotyledonous fossil wood flora and early evolution of wood characters in the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan [2003]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 286
- Year
- 2003
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Type
- Nishidaxylon jezoense
- Diagnosis
- Wood diffuse-porous. Vessels sparse; exclusively solitary ; small to medium in diameter; perforation plates exclusively scalariform; vessel-ray pits alternate to opposite, oval to elliptical, horizontally elongated. Imperforate tracheary elements fiber-tracheids with distinctly bordered pits. Axial parenchyma diffuse and scanty paratracheal. Rays of two distinct sizes, mostly narrow and sometimes conspicuously large; nearly homocellular composed of procumbent cells.
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