Species List

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Carpinus betulus L.

Hornbeam

Betulaceae

 
 

Transversal section

   
  Diffuse-porous. Pores sparse, in long (2 to 10) radial pore multiples. Growth ring boundaries rather indistinct. Aggregate rays generally but not always present. Diffuse apotracheal parenchyma.
 
 

Radial section

   
  Simple perforation plates. Spiral thickenings delicate. Rays homogeneous and heterogeneous with one or two rows of square to slightly upright marginal cells. Ray-vessel-pits slightly enlarged. Libriform fibres and (only few) fibre-tracheids present.
 
 

Tangential section

   
  Rays usually uni- to biseriate, in aggregate rays sometimes up to 4-seriate. Average height of the uniseriate rays: 10 to 20 cells, multiseriate ray height: up to 40 cells. Occasionally prismatic crystals in enlarged ray cells.
 
 

Key characters

   
  Diffuse-porous. Long radial pore multiples. Aggregate rays, simple perforation plates.
 

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