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Pageoxylon
Genus Pageoxylon E.A. Wheeler, T.M. Lehman I.A.W.A. J., 21(1): 93. 2000
- Name
- Pageoxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wheeler E. A.
Lehman T. M.
- Publication
- Late Cretaceous woody dicots from the Aguja and Javelina Formations, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA [2000]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 93
- Year
- 2000
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Type
- Pageoxylon cretaceum
- Diagnosis
- Wood diffuse-porous; vessels solitary and in short radial multiples; tendency to
radial chains; perforation plates exclusively scalariform, less than 25 bars; intervessel
pitting alternate-opposite; vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders, but similar
in size to intervessel pits. Axial parenchyma apotracheal, diffuse-in-aggregates. Rays
less than 4 cells wide and markedly heterocellular, with a few procumbent cells.
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