Intra-tree variability in wood anatomy and its implications for fossil wood systematics and palaeoclimatic studies

Wood Anatomy of Fouquieriaceae in Relation to Habit, Ecology, and Systematics; Nature of Meristems in Wood and Bark

Qualitative and quantitative data are presented for wood of all species of Fouquieriaceae, the samples selected so as to cover important variables with respect to organography and age . Wood contains fibertracheids (plus a few vasicentric tracheids) . Diffuse axial parenchyma is mostly grouped as diffusein-aggregates or diffuse clusters (new term), with transitions to pervasive axial parenchyma...

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...

Tree Growth, Forest Management, and Their Implications for Wood Quality

Oregon State University • University of Idaho • Washington State University Wood has long served as one of our most versatile and heavily used raw materials. From it we derive solid wood for structural and ornamental applications, composite products in the forms of panels and beams, numerous paper products, chemicals, fuel—the list could go on and on. Foresters have worked for many years to inc...

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 Tasmannia