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Morphology

shrub, 1-2 m

Ecology

subalpine, alpine, medium site

Chorology

Australia, Tasmania

Xylem

(Description of a twig). Conifer like wood but with large rays. Distinct ring boundaries, vessels absent, tracheids with big round and scalariform bordered pits (4-5 µm), arranged predominantly uniseriate (1 to 3 seriate). Axial parenchyma rare or absent. Rays are uniseriate and multiseriate (2 to 4 cells in width), heterocellular with 1 to 3 square and upright marginal cells. With sheet cells. Pits in marginal ray cells mostly arranged in axial rows. Ray-pits piceoid (bordered with slit-like apertures). Oil cells in the pith.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Slide missing

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

Cross section
   

© 2005 WSL - F. Schweingruber, W. Landolt, last update 18.11.2010

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