Morphology

P 10-20m

Ecology

hill and mountain

Chorology

North America

Xylem

Distinct rings, semi-ring porous, often >50-90 µm in diameter, vessels solitary and in small groups, ray-vessel pits with large horizontal apertures, simple perforations simple or scalariform, thin-walled tylosis, fibers thin to thick-walled, fibers with large pits, parenchyma apotracheal-diffuse, rays homocellular, 3->10 seriate, with prismatic crystals in ray cells.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Slide missing

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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