First anatomically characterized wood from the Tertiary of Moravia: Spiroplatanoxylon from the area of Austerlitz (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic)
A new silicified angiosperm wood from the alluvial sediments in Vážany nad Litavou (SW of Slavkov/Austerlitz near Brno, Vyškov district) is described. The wood is diffuse-porous with indistinct growth ring boundaries. Vessels are exclusively solitary with helical thickenings and scalariform perforat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Mendel University Press
2011-01-01
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Series: | Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis |
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Online Access: | https://acta.mendelu.cz/59/6/0367/ |