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Qualeoxylon lafila
Qualeoxylon lafila D.W. Woodcock I.A.W.A. J., 45(4): 428. 21 Feb 2024
- Name
- Qualeoxylon lafila
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Qualeoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Woodcock D. W.
- Publication
- Wood of Qualea from the Piedra Chamana in-situ fossil forest (late
Middle Eocene, Peru) and the comparative wood anatomy of
Vochysiaceae and Myrtaceae [2024/2]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 428
- Year
- 2024
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Bartonian
- Strat. comment
- Huambos Formation / 39 Mya
- Location
- Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest, the in-situ assemblage at site SX-05, La Fila, northern Peruvian Andes near Sexi, Cajamarca, Peru
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository Number
- MUSM-PB-379 (field no. S18-4)
- Diagnosis
- Wood diffuse porous, nonstoried. Vessels solitary and in multiples of 2–3 and longer, mean tangential diameter 98 μm, with simple perforation plates; intervessel pits alternate, minute to medium, vestured; vessel-ray pits similar in size and shape to intervessel pits. Fibres mostly non-septate. Axial parenchyma irregularly aliform-confluent and banded. Rays mostly 1–3 seriate and homocellular. Crystals in axial parenchyma; silica bodies in rays and axial parenchyma.
