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Ficoxylon fusiforme
Ficoxylon fusiforme El-Noam. Egypt. J. Bot., 62(1): 35. Jan 2022
- Name
- Ficoxylon fusiforme
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Ficoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- El-Noamani Z.
- Publication
- Ficoxylon fusiforme (Moraceae), a new species from Upper Cretaceous Nubian sandstone, southern Egypt [2022/1]
- Journal
- Egyptian Journal of Botany
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 35
- Year
- 2022
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Turonian
- Strat. comment
- Taref Formation
- Location
- Road between Aswan and Abu-Simbel, Aswan area, southern Egypt
- Paleoregion
- Africa (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Wagieh El-Saadawi Laboratory, Botany Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Repository Number
- TF-ZN.P01
- Diagnosis
- Vessels mostly solitary and
rarely in radial multiples of two, tyloses present;
perforation plates simple with slightly oblique end
walls; axial parenchyma abundant, paratracheal
parenchyma narrow vasicentric, apotracheal
parenchyma in 3–8 seriate, continuous and
discontinuous tangential bands; fibers libriform,
nonseptate, very thin-walled; rays 2–7 (mostly
4–5) seriate, spindle-shaped in tangential view,
closely spaced, slightly heterocellular. Crystals
not observed.
