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Muzquizoxylon
Genus Muzquizoxylon Estrada-Ruiz, Mart.-Cabr., Cev.-Ferriz Amer. J. Bot., 97(7): 1186. Jul 2010
- Name
- Muzquizoxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Estrada-Ruiz E.
Martínez-Cabrera H. I.
Cevallos-Ferriz S. R. S.
- Publication
- Upper Cretaceous woods from the Olmos Formation (late Campanian–early Maastrichtian), Coahuila, Mexico [2010/7]
- Journal
- American Journal of Botany
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 7
- Page number
- 1186
- Year
- 2010
- Parent Taxon
- [Order] Cornales
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Type
- Muzquizoxylon porrasii
- Diagnosis
- Indistinct growth rings; vessels predominantly
solitary, more than 90% and sometimes in radial multiples
of 2, scalariform perforation plates with 48 (32 – 63) bars;
opposite to scalariform intervessel pits, vessel-ray parenchyma
pits opposite, some with reduced and some with distinct borders;
abundant apotracheal axial parenchyma; heterocellular
rays; nonseptate fi bers with minutely bordered pits; vertical
traumatic canals.
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