Pinoxylon diversiradiatum

Name

Pinoxylon diversiradiatum

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Pinoxylon

Authors (Pub.)

Süss H. Velitzelos E.  

Publication

Zwei neue fossile Hölzer der Morphogattung Pinoxylon Knowlton emend. Read aus dem Tertiär der Insel Lesbos, Griechenland [2009/5]

Journal

Feddes Repertorium

Volume

120

Issue

1-2

Page number

4, 5

Year

2009

Fossil Status

stems (wood)

Stratigraphy

Miocene

Location

Lesbos, near Eressos, Greece

Paleoregion

Eurasia (Europe)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Athens University, Athens, Greece

Repository Number

Lesbos 188

Num

Taf. I, Fig. 1–5; Taf. II, Fig. 1–6

Pub.

Zwei neue fossile Hölzer der Morphogattung Pinoxylon Knowlton emend. Read aus dem Tertiär der Insel Lesbos, Griechenland [2009/5]

Diagnosis

Secondary xylem of the morphogenus Pinoxylon KNOWLTON emend. READ, with the wood structure of stem, growth layers present, earlywood gradually turn into the latewood, bordered pits in radial walls protopinoid, resin channels to 200 × 275 μm in diameter, rays presented as uniseriate only small cellular rays, as uni- to partially biseriate rays with secretory cells and large rays of different largeness and sharpe, uni- and biseriate rays mostly 2–14 cells high, large rays 5–12 cells (260–800 μm) high, cells of rays with only small cells on average 23 μm high, secretory cells on average 60 μm high, cells of large rays to 75 μm wide and to 110 μm high, in the cross-field one to two taxodioide pits, on the ends of rays one to two rows of ray tracheids, between ray cells and tracheid walls intercellular spaces.