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Morphology

shrub, - 1 m

Ecology

hill and mountain zone, medium site

Chorology

Himalaya

Xylem

Only one ring, vessels solitary, vessel diameter 15-30µm vessel frequency 200-300 mm2, scalariform perforations with 15 - 30 bars, fibers thick-walled, with small round pits, apotracheal parenchyma, ray width 1-2 cells, rays homocellular with several extremely high marginal cells.

Xylem-Code

See annex

Phloem

Small groups of sieve cells between parenchyma in the phloem, band of sclereids in tangential row in the cortex. Some small 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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