Notomalvaceoxylon L.C.A.Martínez et Leppe in Martínez, Leppe, Manríquez, Pino, Trevisan, Manfroi & Mansilla

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003138

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3138

Authors: L. C. A. Martínez & M. Leppe

Rank: genus

Reference: Martínez, L. C. A., Leppe, M., Manríquez, L. L.M., Pino, J. P., Trevisan, C., Manfroi, J. & Mansilla, H. (2023): A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high-latitude continental environment. – Papers in Palaeontology 9(6): 1–45., link

Page of description: 19-21

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Wood diffuse–porous. Vessels from solitary to radial multiples of 4 or more common. Solitary vessels angular in outline. Simple and oblique perforation plates, and intervessel pits alternate. Rounded, vertical and horizontal vessel–ray pits with reduced borders. Septate fibres. Large heterogeneous rays, 2–10‐seriate, with uniseriate marginal rows of up to 3 cells. Uniseriate rays common. Tile cells (Pterospermum type). Sheath cells.

Etymology

The genus is a combination of the Greek prefix Notos, which refers to the south, Malvaceae, after the living family, and ‐xylon referring to wood.