Bauhinium Trivedi et Panjwani ex U.Prakash et Mah.Prasad

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003721

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3721

Authors: B.S. Trivedi & M. Panjwani ex U. Prakash & M. Prasad

Rank: genus

Reference for this name: Prakash, U. & Prasad, M. (1983): Wood of Bauhinia from the Siwalik beds of Uttar Pradesh, India. – The Palaeobotanist 32(2): 140–145. Not public

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Wood diflusc-porous. (Growth rugs inconspicuous or absent. Large to mediun sized or small, solitary or in radial rows of 2-3 or more, open or tylosed
or with gum deposits; vessel segment short, truncate or abruptly tailed; pertoration simple; intervessel pit-pairs alternate, bordered, orbicular. Parenchyma paratracheal sparse or relatively abundant, occurring as patches round the vesels, mostly forming broad tan￾gential, straight or wavy bands which alternate with similar bands of fibrous tissue. Rays 1-3 heterogeneous, storied or non-stroried, when storied forming ripple marks.
Fibres semilibriform to libriform; arranged in tangential bands, non-septate.

Etymology

In view of the closest resemblance of the present wood of Bauhinia.