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Terminalioxylon mozambicense
Terminalioxylon mozambicense M.K. Bamford, M. Pickford Foss. Impr., 77(1): 205. 9 Dec 2021
- Name
- Terminalioxylon mozambicense
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Terminalioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bamford M. K.
Pickford M.
- Publication
- Stratigraphy, chronology and palaeontology of the Tertiary rocks of the Cheringoma Plateau, Mozambique [2021/12]
- Journal
- Fossil Imprint
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 205
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Priabonian
- Location
- Mhengere Hill, Site 3 (18°56′02.0″S, 34°36′50.6″E), Cheringoma Plateau, Mozambique
- Paleoregion
- Africa (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Palaeobotany Herbarium, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Repository Number
- BP/16/1734
- Diagnosis
- The wood is diffuse porous and growth
rings are absent to indistinct. Vessels are arranged in short
radial multiples, often solitary but with lines of two or three
pores. Some vessels are tylosed, and range in diameter from
145–175 μm. Perforation plates are simple
and horizontal. Inter-vessel pits are alternate and 6–8 μm
and vessel-parenchyma pits are the same.
Parenchyma is scanty paratracheal to vasicentric and also
diffuse. There are 2–4 cells per parenchyma
strand. Prismatic crystals occur in the diffuse parenchyma
cells and the ray cells. Rays are exclusively
uniseriate and up to 16 cells high (175-400-500 μm), and
procumbent body cells with 1–2 rows of marginal, square or
upright cells that are difficult to see because of the dark cell
contents. No canals were seen.
