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Morphology

H, 10 - 40cm

Ecology

mountain zone

Chorology

SW-european

Xylem

Distinct rings, semi-ring-porous, many thick-walled vessels in groups, simple perforations, earlywood vessel diameter 50-80µm, with vestured intervessel pits, round and scalariform intervessel-pits, fibers rare, few thick-walled fibers, parenchyma mainly vasicentric, apotracheal, ray width 5-15 cells, with sheet cells, homocellular with square and upright cells. With a few prismatic crystals along large rays.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

With ray dilatations, tangential rows of collapsed sieve tubes and sclereids.

Explanations

For explanations please see the Feature Characteristics.

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

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