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Morphology

c 20-40 cm

Ecology

hill dry meadow

Chorology

SE-Europ.

Xylem

Distinct rings, semi-ring porous, vessels solitary and often in diagonal patterns, simple perforations, vessel diameter 40-50µm, with round intervessel pits, vestured pits, fibers thin- to thick-walled, parenchyma vasicentric, ray 2-6 cells in width, heterocellular with 1-3 upright cells, , prismatic crystals.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Tangential layers of collapsed sieve cells, ray dilatations, tangentially arranged groups of sclereids, with many prismatic crystals.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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

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