ECOLOGICAL TRENDS IN THE WOOD ANATOMY OF SOME BRAZILIAN SPECIES. 1. GROWTH RINGS AND VESSELS

IAWA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edenise Segala Alves ◽  
Veronica Angyalossy-Alfonso
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Growth Rings ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Brazilian Flora ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Helical Thickenings ◽  
Special Arrangement

Some ecological trends based on wood were established in woody florulas of several regions in Brazil. Growth rings and qualitative vessel features were analysed in trees belonging to the 22 most representative families of the Brazilian flora, including 133 genera, 491 species and 686 specimens. Some ecological trends were statistically proven by Pearsonʼs Standardised Residues. The presence of growth rings was associated with seasonal environments. Vessels tended to show special arrangement patterns at higher latitudes and in environments affected by thermal seasonality. Vessels in multiples were more common in environments that were seasonal for temperature and humidity. Although not statistically significant, there is a trend for multiple perforation plates and helical thickenings to be most common in higher latitudes and colder environments. Overall, the results for Brazilian species are compatible with trends established by other authors for other floras and /or taxa.

Wood Anatomy of the Bignoniaceae, with a Comparison of Trees and Lianas

IAWA Journal ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gasson ◽  
David R. Dobbins
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Secondary Xylem ◽  
Unit Area ◽  
Xylem Anatomy ◽  
Diameter Class ◽  
Growth Rings ◽  
The Family ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Helical Thickenings ◽  
Anomalous Growth

The secondary xylem anatomy of trees and lianas was compared in the family Bignoniaceae. General descriptions of the family and the six woody tribes are provided. Lianas belong to the tribes Bignonieae, Tecomeae and Schlegelieae, and most have ve.ssels of two distinct diameters, many vessels per unit area, large intervascular pits, septate fibres, large heterocellular rays often of two distinct sizes, scanty paratracheal and vasicentric axial parenchyma and anomalous growth. Conversely, trees, which belong to the tribes Coleeae, Crescentieae, Oroxyleae and Tecomeae generally have narrower vessels in one diameter class, fewer vessels per unit area, smaller intervascular pits, non-septate fibres, small homocellular rays, scanty paratracheal, aliform or confluent parenchyma, and none exhibits anomalous growth. The majority of both trees and Hanas possess growth rings, are diffuse-porous, have non-solitary vessels which lack helical thickenings, and few have apotracheal parenchyma or storied structure. All species have alternate intervascular pitting and simple perforation plates.

scholarly journals Using Lenses Attached to a Smartphone as a Macroscopic Early Warning Tool in the Illegal Timber Trade, in Particular for CITES-Listed Species

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1147
Author(s):  
Paloma de Palacios ◽  
Luis G. Esteban ◽  
Peter Gasson ◽  
Francisco García-Fernández ◽  
Antonio de Marco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Vessel Diameter ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Ray Cells ◽  
Timber Trade ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Helical Thickenings

Wood anatomy is a key discipline as a tool for monitoring the global timber trade, particularly for wood listed in protected species conventions such as Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES). One of the main barriers to reducing illegal trafficking of protected species is ensuring that customs officials with appropriate training in wood anatomy are equipped with simple tools, at both the origin and destination of shipments, so they can raise an early warning about wood suspected of contravening international treaties and immediately send samples to a specialised laboratory. This work explains how lenses attached to a smartphone, capable of achieving up to 400× magnification using the phone digital zoom, can be used to distinguish features that are not visible with traditional 10× or 12× lenses, enhancing the capacity to view features not typically observable in the field. In softwoods, for example, this method permits determination of the type of axial parenchyma arrangement, whether there are helical thickenings in axial tracheids and whether axial tracheids have organic deposits or contain alternate polygonal pits, and in the rays, if the tracheids are smooth-walled or dentate and if the cross-field pits are window-like. In hardwoods, it allows verification of the presence of tyloses and deposits in vessels, the type of perforation plates and whether the intervascular pitting is scalariform; in the rays it is possible to differentiate the types of ray cells; and in the axial parenchyma, to determine the presence of oil cells. In addition, unlike macroscopic analysis with a conventional magnifying lens, this type of lens can be used with the appropriate mobile application for the biometry of important elements such as ray height and vessel diameter.

WOOD ANATOMY OF MYRCIARIA, NEOMITRANTHES, PLINIA AND SIPHONEUGENA SPECIES (MYRTEAE, MYRTACEAE)

IAWA Journal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel U.C.A. Santos ◽  
Cátia H. Callado ◽  
Marcelo da Costa Souza ◽  
Cecilia G. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Growth Rings ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Bordered Pits ◽  
Parenchyma Cells ◽  
Ray Parenchyma ◽  
Square Cells ◽  
Ray Parenchyma Cells ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Fruit Characters

Myrciaria, Neomitranthes, Plinia and Siphoneugena are closely related genera whose circumscriptions are controversial. The distinctions between Myrciaria vs. Plinia, and Neomitranthes vs. Siphoneugena, have been based on a few fruit characters. The wood anatomy of 24 species of these genera was examined to determine if wood anatomical features could help delimit the genera. It was determined the four genera cannot reliably be separated by wood anatomy alone. Characteristics seen in all four genera are: growth rings usually poorly-defined; diffuse porous; exclusively solitary vessels, usually circular to oval in outline; simple perforation plates; vessel-ray pits alternate and distinctly bordered; fibers with distinctly bordered pits in radial and tangential walls, usually very thickwalled; vasicentric tracheids typically absent; scanty paratracheal parenchyma, sometimes unilateral, and diffuse to diffuse-in-aggregates; chambered crystalliferous axial parenchyma in many species, usually both prismatic and smaller crystals; rays 1–4-seriate, uniseriate rays composed of upright/square cells, multiseriate rays with procumbent body cells and 1 to many marginal rows of upright/square cells; disjunctive ray parenchyma cells usually present.

WOOD ANATOMY OF ACALYPHOIDEAE (EUPHORBIACEAE)

IAWA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. John Hayden ◽  
Sheila M. Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Wood Structure ◽  
Growth Rings ◽  
Wood Fibres ◽  
Ray Cells ◽  
Perforation Plates

Via LM and SEM, we studied wood structure of 51 genera representing 19 tribes of Acalyphoideae, the largest subfamily of Euphorbiaceae. Many acalyphoid woods possess the following features: growth rings indistinct or weakly defined; pores evenly distributed; simple perforation plates (but admixture of irregular scalariform plates common); alternate intervessel pits; vessel-ray pits larger than intervessel pits, circular to elongate and alternate to irregular; thin to moderately thick-walled non-septate fibre-tracheids or libriform wood fibres; parenchyma distribution diffuse, diffuse-in-aggregates, and scanty paratracheal, sometimes in thin-tangential bands; heterocellular rays seldom more than 3 cells wide; and prismatic crystals in parenchyma and /or ray cells. Within this syndrome, a number of other wood characters also occur but at lower frequency. For the most part, the unusual features have not proven systematically informative at the tribal level. Presence of lysigenous radial canals, however, supports recognition of tribe Alchorneae. Wood data do not support the segregation of Peraceae and Pandaceae from subfamily Acalyphoideae.

Wood Anatomy of Trees and Shrubs from China. VI. Magnoliaceae

IAWA Journal ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Bao Liang ◽  
Pieter Baas ◽  
Elisabeth A. Wheeler ◽  
Wu Shuming
Keyword(s):  
Native Species ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Tropical Species ◽  
Evergreen Species ◽  
Bordered Pits ◽  
Vessel Elements ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Helical Thickenings ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Trees And Shrubs

The wood anatomy offive genera of Magnoliaceae (59 native species, 2 introduced species) of China is described. Although the wood anatomy of this family is rather homogeneous, it is possible to identify most specimens to genus. Magnoliaceae wood from China is characterised by diffuse-porosity, scalariform to opposite vessel wall pitting, scalariform perforations with few bars or in some Magnolia species simple perforations, ground tissue fibres with distinctly to minutely bordered pits, marginal parenchyma and heterocellular rays mostly with one marginal row of square/upright cells. Intervessel and vessel-parenchyma pits are almost exclusively opposite in the Liriodendroideae; they are almost exclusively scalariform in the Magnolioideae, except for Magnolia section Rhytidospermum in which pits are predominantly opposite. Although the wood anatomical characters more or less overlap between Magnolia and Manglietia, these genera are wood anatomically distinguishable. Wood anatomy is similar in the evergreen species of Magnolia and Michelia. Kmeria is the only genus in which crystals were observed. Taxa from the tropics to subtropics tend to have longer and wider vessel elements, and a lower vessel frequency than those from temperate provenances; oil cells in rays mostly occur in the taxa from tropical and subtropical provenances. Simple perforation plates are mostly present in the temperate taxa. Counter to trends for the dicotyledons at large, helical thickenings are more common in tropical species than in temperate species, and, when present, are usually not distinct in deciduous species.

scholarly journals Estudo anatômico do xilema secundário de Ephedra tweediana C. A. Meyer

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
José Newton Cardoso Marchiori ◽  
Graciela I. Bolzon de Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Secondary Xylem ◽  
Xylem Anatomy ◽  
Annual Rings ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
Bordered Pits ◽  
Perforation Plates

The anatomical features of the secondary xylem of Ephedra tweediana C.A. Meyer are described. They are also furnished photomicrographs as well as quantitative data of its structure. The wood anatomy fits with the described in the literature to other species of the same genus. In the wood of Ephedra tweediana they are found real vessels and very tall rays, up to 8 cells wide. These features are common in the Angiosperm Dicotyledons but absent in the Gymnosperms, with the exception ofthe Chlamydospermae or Gnetales. Ephedra separates itself in this group by the presence of foraminate or "ephedroid" perforation plates. In the xylem anatomy of this south brazilian species, they must be also emphasized the presence of very short tracheids, provided with uniseriate bordered pits and the peculiar "stepped outline" of annual rings.

scholarly journals Anatomía de la madera de las especies mexicanas de Salvia sección Erythrostachys Epl. (Lamiaceae)

2017 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Ceja-Romero ◽  
Carmen de la Paz Pérez-Olvera ◽  
Jesús Rivera-Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Vessel Diameter ◽  
Starch Grains ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Vessel Elements ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Helical Thickenings

The wood anatomy of Salvia pubescens, S. regla, and S. sessei is described. These species are included within the section Erythrostachys, subgenus Calosphace, genus Salvia. Two samples were collected for each species to obtain permanent slides. Transverse, radial and tangential sections were used to describe the anatomy of each taxon. The wood has ring porosity, the tangential vessel diameter is small (34-85 μm), the vessel elements are short (94-257 μm) with alternate pitting, helical thickenings and simple perforation plates. Vasicentric tracheids are present. Axial parenchyma is paratracheal scanty, apotracheal diffuse, and marginal. Rays are uniseriate and multiseriate, heterogeneous, aggregate and non aggregate. Libriform fibers are septate and non septate. Gums, tyloses, starch grains and prismatic crystals were observed. These features agree with previous reports for the genus.

scholarly journals Comparative wood anatomy of Korean Viburnum L. (Adoxaceae) and its taxonomic implication

PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Balkrishna Ghimire ◽  
Dong Chan Son ◽  
Beom Kyun Park ◽  
Seung-Hwan Oh
Keyword(s):  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Quantitative Measurement ◽  
Tangential Plane ◽  
Growth Rings ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Bordered Pits ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Comparative Wood Anatomy

Comparative wood anatomy of Viburnum was carried out to understand the differences in wood features amongst the species which might be useful for taxonomic discrimination in the genus. Altogether, nine taxa belonging to five clades were investigated using a sliding microtome and light microscopy. The growth rings are well represented and earlywood and latewood are distinguishable in cross-section. Some of the important wood features include angular, oval and rounded vessels with scalariform perforation plates, opposite to scalariform inter-vessel pitting, rounded pits with slit-like apertures, thick-walled xylem tracheids with simple, rounded bordered pits, diffuse axial parenchyma, uni- and multiseriate rays, 2–4 cells wide. In general, there is a remarkable uniformity in the qualitative wood features in Viburnum species, although quantitative measurement showed some disparities. The most significant quantitative wood variables which might be useful for taxonomic groupings of the species comprise a frequency of vessels and rays, the diameter of the vessels and tracheids in the radial and tangential planes and height and width of rays in the tangential plane.

Wood Structural Diversity among Himalayan Rhododendron

IAWA Journal ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuo Suzuki ◽  
Hideaki Ohba
Keyword(s):  
Pore Size ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Structural Diversity ◽  
Growth Rings ◽  
Perforation Plates

The wood anatomy of nine species of Himalayan Rhododendron is compared. All share the characters: growth rings present, but indistinct; pores evenly distributed, numerous; intervessel pits alternate; perforation plates scalariform with 10 to 30 bars; wood parenchyma diffuse or diffuse-in-aggregates; rays heterogeneous uniseriate and multiseriate. However, pore size, occurrence of spiral thickenings and frequency of multi seriate rays are variable among the species studied. Our investigation shows that these characters vary according to the habit of plants. The woods of trees have wider vessels, distinct spirals in both vessels and fibre-tracheids, and numerous multiseriate rays, while those of shrubs have narrower vessels with indistinct or restricted spirals and less frequent multiseriate rays.

ECOLOGICAL TRENDS IN THE WOOD ANATOMY OF SOME BRAZILIAN SPECIES. 2. AXIAL PARENCHYMA, RAYS AND FIBRES

IAWA Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edenise Segala Alves ◽  
Veronica Angyalossy-Alfonso
Keyword(s):  
Wall Thickness ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Fibre Wall ◽  
Brazilian Species ◽  
Brazilian Flora

Some ecological trends in wood anatomy were established in florulas from several regions in Brazil. Characteristics of the axial and radial parenchyma and fibres were analyzed in trees belonging to 22 families of the Brazilian flora, including 133 genera, 491 species and 686 specimens. Some ecological trends were statistically supported by Pearson’s Standardised Residues. At lower latitudes, the axial parenchyma was predominantly paratracheal and more abundant; the rays were thinner, and the fibre walls thicker. At higher latitudes, the parenchyma was predominantly apotracheal and not so abundant, the rays were wider and the fibre walls thinner. Fibre wall thickness was related to humidity. Thinner walls were found in more humid environments, thicker walls were associated with drier environments. No trends for ray composition were identified. Overall, the results for Brazilian species are compatible with trends established by other authors.

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