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Agaristoxylon
Genus Agaristoxylon Gerrienne, Beeckm., Dambl., Doutrel., Fairon, Thierry Sm. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 104(3-4): 300. 19 Feb 1999
- Name
- Agaristoxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Gerrienne P.
Beeckman H.
Damblon F.
Doutrelepont H.
Fairon M.
Smith T.
- Publication
- Agaristoxylon garennicum Gerrienne et al., gen. et sp. nov., an arborescent Ericaceae from the Belgian Upper Paleocene: palaeoenvironmental implications [1999/2]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 3-4
- Page number
- 300
- Year
- 1999
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Ericaceae
- Fossil Status
- wood
- Type
- Agaristoxylon garennicum
- Diagnosis
- Wood diffuse-porous, with indistinct growth rings. Vessels small, solitary, numerous (20 to 40=mm2), rounded to slightly polygonal in transverse section; vessels with opposite often elongated pits, and with simple or scalariform perforation plates. Tracheids with large round bordered and ornate pits; libriform fibres abundantly pitted. No septate fibres (?). Apotracheal reticulate and sparse paratracheal vasicentric parenchyma. Heterogeneous ray tissue; short uni- or biseriate homocellular rays, with all square or upright cells; large multiseriate heterocellular rays, with procumbent ray cells and one row of square or upright marginal cells.
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