Chimairoidoxylon conspicuum

Name

Chimairoidoxylon conspicuum

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Chimairoidoxylon

Authors (Pub.)

Süss H. Velitzelos E.  

Publication

Chimairoidoxylon conspicuum sp. nova, ein neues fossiles Holz der Formgattung Chimairoidoxylon Süss & Velitzelos emend. Süss, mit einer übersicht über das Vorkommen fossiler Hölzer auf der Insel Lesbos, Griechenland [2001/9]

Journal

Feddes Repertorium

Volume

112

Issue

3-4

Page number

151

Year

2001

Fossil Status

stems (wood)

Stratigraphy

Miocene

Location

Gavathas, Lesbos Island, Greece

Paleoregion

Eurasia (Europe)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Athens University, Athens, Greece

Repository Number

Lesbos 170 with 3 slides

Num

Tafel I, Fig. 1-5; Tafel II, Fig. 1-6

Pub.

Chimairoidoxylon conspicuum sp. nova, ein neues fossiles Holz der Formgattung Chimairoidoxylon Süss & Velitzelos emend. Süss, mit einer übersicht über das Vorkommen fossiler Hölzer auf der Insel Lesbos, Griechenland [2001/9]

Diagnosis

Secondary xylem with stem wood structure, growth layers distinct with an abrupt transition from early to late wood, late wood layers with dark contents distinctly marked, tracheids with and without scalariform thickenings, radial walls between thickenings entirely occupied with bordered pits, in tracheids without scalariform thickenings bordered pits on radial and tangential walls protopinoid; axial parenchyma sparsely scattered, rays uniseriate and partially biseriate, to 30, mostly 1-12 cells high, ray cells on average 20 pm high, between ray cells and tracheids intercellular spaces, walls of ray cells smooth, small taxodioid pits in the cross-field, ray tracheids and resin channels '.I b sent.