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Morphology

c 20-40 cm

Ecology

hill and mountain pinus sylvestris forest

Chorology

S-European montane

Xylem

Distinct rings, semi-ring-porous, tangentially arranged grouped vessels, simple perforations, vessel diameter 50-100µm, round to slightly scalariform intervessel-pits, fibers thick-walled, parenchyma vasicentric and terminal, ray width 4-8 cells, homocellular with slightly prostrate and square cells, with prismatic crystals

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Small groups of sclerenchyma cells in tangential bands, 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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