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Salicoxylon galatianum
Salicoxylon galatianum Akkemik Acta Palaeobot., 61(1): 75. 30 Jun 2021
- Name
- Salicoxylon galatianum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Salicoxylon
- 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
- 75
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Burdigalian
- Strat. comment
- Hançili Formation
- Location
- Fossil site in Hoçaş village, Seben city, Bolu, Bolu Province, Black Sea region, Türkiye
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- ISTO Herbarium, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey
- Repository Number
- Three thin sections of specimen HOC06
- Diagnosis
- Wood diffuse-porous, vessels mostly in short radial multiples of 2–4(–6)
cells, solitary. Growth ring boundaries distinct, with 1 (rarely 2) rows of axial parenchyma cells. Solitary vessels circular in general, vessel cells in radial multiples tangentially flattened. Mean vessel tangential diameter 50–100 µm, vessel frequency 40–100 per mm2. Rays mostly uniseriate, sometimes partly biseriate, 5–20(–27) cells high. 4–12 rays per mm. Axial parenchyma diffuse, in marginal bands. Septate fibres common. Intervessel pits alternate. Prismatic crystals present in septate fibres. Vessel-ray pits simple, large, slightly honeycomb-like; 2–4 and 5–8 cells per parenchyma strand. Perforation plates exclusively simple. Rays heterocellular, body ray cells procumbent with one to three rows of square marginal cells. Some rays composed of only procumbent cells. Vascular and vasicentric tracheids absent.
