Petrified nyctaginaceous wood from Eocene strata of Texas and Louisiana

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2509
Title	Petrified nyctaginaceous wood from Eocene strata of Texas and Louisiana
BYU Creator	Tidwell, William D.
Creator	Nambudiri, E. M. V. Hueber, F. M.
Keywords	petrified wood; Texas; Louisiana
Description/Abstract	Two separate collections of petrified wood from near Fall City, Texas, and Leesville, Louisiana, respectively, yielded stumps with anomalous secondary growth. Specifically, these woods appear to have foraminate included phloem. Individual bundles are round to oval and slightly tangentially elongated. Vessels are solitary, in radial pairs and oblique multiples; they are not restricted to a position subtending the bundles. Perforation plates are exclusively solitary; intervascular pits are alternate and small, pits to ray parenchyma are similar. Rays are uniseriate and short. The shape and distribution of the bundles and characteristics of the rays and vessel elements indicate these woods are most similar to the woods of the Nyctaginaceae, although they differ from samples of extant Nyctaginaceae examined to date.
Source	Petrified nyctaginaceous wood from Eocene strata of Texas and Louisiana (in Program with abstracts of papers to be presented at the annual meetings of the Botanical Society of America with other affiliated societies at the University of Massachusetts, Taylor,) F. M. Hueber, E. M. V. Nambudiri, William D. Tidwell, and E. F. Wheeler American Journal of Botany (May 1986), 73(5):701
Publisher	Botanical Society of America
Date Original	1986-05
Date Digital	2010-09
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Abstracts
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
BYU Department	Geological Sciences
Copyright Status	(c) 1986 Botanical Society of America;
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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