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Prunoidoxylon prunoides
Prunoidoxylon prunoides Akkemik Acta Palaeobot., 61(1): 70. 30 Jun 2021
- Name
- Prunoidoxylon prunoides
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Prunoidoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Akkemik Ü.
- Publication
- A re-examination of the angiosperm wood record from the early and middle Miocene of Turkey, and new species descriptions [2021/6]
- Journal
- Acta Palaeobotanica
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 70
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Burdigalian
- Strat. comment
- Hançili Formation
- Location
- Mençeler Plateau, Beypazarı city, Ankara Province, Türkiye
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Anatolia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- ISTO Herbarium, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey
- Repository Number
- Three thin sections of specimen MEN31
- Diagnosis
- Wood ring-porous with distinct growth ring boundaries. Tangential and radial
diameter of vessels 55 (32–75) µm and 82 (33–136) µm in earlywood, 22 (8–43) µm and 30 (15–50) µm in latewood. Vessels generally solitary, rarely in
groups of 2–3 cells. Vessel frequency 40–100 per mm2. Axial parenchyma present, scanty paratracheal, in marginal or apparently marginal bands. Rays of two distinct sizes, as 1–2 rows and 4–10 rows. Larger rays
generally wide, 7 (5–8) cells wide, longer rays more than 1 mm high, narrow rays uniseriate (very rarely biseriate). Number of rays 4–12 per mm. Rays heterocellular with procumbent body ray cells and one or more rows of upright and/or square marginal cells. Perforation plates simple. Prismatic crystals present in rays. Intervessel pits alternate or rarely slightly opposite.
