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Tabernaemontana moralesii
Tabernaemontana moralesii D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 38(3): 326. 7 Nov 2017
- Name
- Tabernaemontana moralesii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Tabernaemontana
- 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
- 326
- 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
- S143
- Diagnosis
- Wood with distinct growth rings, diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in
short to long radial multiples, crowded, mean tangential diameter ~50 μm, perforations simple, intervessel pits crowded alternate, ray-vessel pits similar to intervessel pits. Fibers septate. Axial parenchyma scarce or absent. Rays (1–)2-seriate; uniseriate rays of high upright cells, biseriate rays with procumbent body ray cells and long uniseriate extensions of high-procumbent, square, and/or high upright cells; biseriate portions as
wide as uniseriate portions.
