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Ceiba huancabambiana
Ceiba huancabambiana D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 2019, 40(3): 7. 1 Jan 2019
- Name
- Ceiba huancabambiana
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Ceiba
- Authors (Pub.)
- Woodcock D. W.
Meyer H. W.
Prado Y.
- Publication
- The Piedra Chamana fossil woods (Eocene, Peru) II [2019/1]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2019
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 7
- Year
- 2019
- 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 Number
- USM-S141
- Diagnosis
- Wood with growth rings, diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in short
radial multiples, mean tangential diameter 100–150 μm, perforations simple; intervessel pits alternate; vessel-ray parenchyma pits variable within individual cells, simple, similar in size to intervessel pits to enlarged. Fibers non-septate. Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal to vasicentric, diffuse-in-aggregates to banded, and in marginal bands. Rays non-storied, 1–9-seriate with procumbent body ray cells, sheath cells, and 1–4 rows of marginal cells. Axial parenchyma, vessel elements, and fibers storied.
