Ecological trends in the wood anatomy of Vaccinioideae (Ericaceae s.l.)

Comparative wood anatomy of epacrids (Styphelioideae, Ericaceae s.L.).

The wood anatomy of 16 of the 37 genera within the epacrids (Styphelioideae, Ericaceae s.l.) is investigated by light and scanning electron microscopy. Several features in the secondary xylem occur consistently at the tribal level: arrangement of vessel-ray pits, distribution of axial parenchyma, ray width, and the presence and location of crystals. The primitive nature of Prionoteae and Archer...

Further Concepts in Ecological Wood Anatomy, with Comments on Recent Work in Wood Anatomy and Evolution

Wood Anatomy of Myoporaceae: Ecological and Systematic Considerations

Wood Anatomy of Caryophyllaceae: Ecological, Habital, Systematic, and Phylogenetic Implications

Wood of Caryophyllaceae is more diverse than has been appreciated. Imperforate tracheary elements may be tracheids, fiber-tracheids, or libriform fibers. Rays may be uniseriate only, multiseriate only, or absent. Roots of some species (and sterns of a few of those same genera) have vascular tissue produced by successive cambia. The diversity in wood anatomy character states shows a range from p...

Wood Anatomy of Stilbaceae and Retziaceae: Ecological and Systematic Implications

Wood anatomy of ten species in five genera of the Cape Province (South Africa) family Stilbaceae is reported in quantitative and qualitative terms. Wood anatomy for stem, root, and lignotuber is reported for the monotypic Cape genus Retzia. Stilbaceae and Retziaceae are alike in wood anatomy but differ from Verbenaceae by having scalariform perforation plates with few and wide-bordered bars (si...