Authors : S.D. Puranik
Page Nos : 169-173
Description :
Fossil dicotyledonous petrified wood collected from Mohgaonkalan. Wood is porous; growth rings absent, vessels mostly solitary, large sized, multiples of two, perforation plates simple, intervascular pitting alternate bordered. Xylem parenchyma paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, aliform confluent and metatracheal banded. Fibres non-spetate, non- storied. Rays homogenous with procumbent cells, multiseriate and rarely uniseriate. The present fossil wood shows more resemblance to the wood of Terminalia, genus of Combretaceae with close approach to Terminaliaca tappa. Hence it is named as Terminalioxylon catappaiigen. et. sp. nov.
