ISSN:
1573-5117
Keywords:
Aegiceras corniculatum
;
wood structure
;
quantitative characters
;
soil salinities
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract We describe the wood structure of Aegiceras corniculatum and its differences under various soil salinities. This species had diffuse-porous wood with poorly defined growth rings. Vessels which had single perforations occurred abundantly and in multiples and were storeyed. Intervascular pits between contiguous vessels were alternate bordered ones while half-bordered pit-pairs existed between both vessel-ray and vessel-parenchyma. Homogenous xylem rays were multiseriate and uniseriate. Fiber-tracheids with bordered pits often had thinner walls. Xylem parenchyma cells were scant and distributed diffusely and paratracheally. Differences in the structural and quantitative characters of vessels, xylem rays and fiber-tracheids under diverse soil salinities are described.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1003092906969
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