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Morphology

P, 5-10m

Ecology

arid desert

Chorology

North-Africa

Xylem

Rings absent or ring porous, vessels solitary and in short radial multiples, simple perforations, vessel diameter 50-100µm, fibers thick-walled, parenchyma paratracheal vasicentric ray width 2-4 cells, homocellular, square cells, with prismatic crystals.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Uniform phloem, ray dilatations, irregular or tangentially arranged groups of sclereids in the phloem.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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

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