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Cordia florifera
Cordia florifera D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 38(3): 335. 7 Nov 2017
- Name
- Cordia florifera
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cordia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Woodcock D. W.
Meyer H. W.
Prado Y.
- Publication
- The Piedra Chamana fossil woods (Eocene, Peru) [2017/11]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 335
- Year
- 2017
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Bartonian
- Strat. comment
- 39 Mya
- Location
- Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest main site (79°10'W, 6°35' S), near Sexi village, northern Peruvian Andes, Peru
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Departamento de Paleontología de Invertebrados y Paleobotánica & Mineralogía y Petrología, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Mayor Nacional San Marcos, Lima, Peru
- Repository Number
- S59
- Diagnosis
- Wood with distinct growth rings, semi-ring porous. Vessels solitary
and in small clusters, latewood vessels tangentially grouped or arranged, perforations simple, tangential diameter generally 50–100 μm, intervessel pits crowded alternate, vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits. Fibers non-septate or with thin septae. Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal to vasicentric and linking latewood vessels in confluent bands. Rays 1–3-seriate, multiseriate rays with procumbent body cells and often 1–2 rows of marginal square cells and sheath cells and incorporating fibers and axial
parenchyma. Structures present in the wood apparently representing bud gaps associated with floral axes.
