Urticaleoxylon Wheeler & Manchester & Baas 2023, GEN. NOV.
Description
URTICALEOXYLON GEN. NOV.
Diagnosis— Growth ring boundaries marked by marginal parenchyma. Wood semi-ring-porous to diffuse porous, vessels solitary and in radial multiples of 2–3, rarely more. Perforation plates exclusively simple. Intervessel pits alternate, medium to large in horizontal diameter; vessel-ray parenchyma pits oval to horizontally elongate, simple or with reduced borders. Non-septate and septate fibers present. Axial parenchyma marginal, scanty paratracheal, vasicentric, and in latewood some aliform-confluent. Rays homocellular composed of procumbent cells to heterocellular with one (rarely more) marginal row of upright to square cells. Crystals, if present, in marginal ray cells.
Etymology— Name to indicate a wood with features found in urticalean families.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ulmaceae
- Genus
- Urticaleoxylon
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Rosales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Wheeler & Manchester & Baas
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Urticaleoxylon Wheeler, Manchester & Baas, 2023