Goniorrhachisinoxylon L.C.A.Martínez, T.L.Dutra et Wilberger in Dutra, Martínez & Wilberger

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003156

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3156

Authors: L. C. A. Martínez, T. L. Dutra & T. Wilberger

Rank: genus

Reference: Dutra, T. L., Martínez, L. C. A. & Wilberger, T. (2023): A new fossil wood of Detarioideae from the Boa Vista Basin, Upper Oligocene (Northeast Brazil): Comparisons with living and fossil Leguminosae Subfamilies. Paleoclimate and biogeography inferences for the Leguminosae story. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 317: 1–18.

Page of description: 4

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Secondary xylem, diffuse porous wood. Vessels circular to oval in outline, solitary, in radial multiples, and/or diagonal patterns. Simple perforation plates. Intervessel pits, from oval to circular, alternate, and vestured. Vessel-ray pits with distinct borders; similar to intervessel pits in size and shape throughout the ray cell. Axial paratracheal parenchyma aliform, aliform confluent, lozenge–aliform to winged-aliform. Parenchyma in irregular and discontinuous narrow bands or lines up to three cells wide. Marginal parenchyma. Parenchyma cells in strand. Rays homocellular, procumbent cells, 1–2 seriate. All elements storied: rays, vessels, parenchyma, and fibres.

Etymology

The generic name is a combination of Goniorrhachis, after the extant genus, and -xylon refers to wood.