Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. II. GeneraOther Tan Eriodictyon, with Comments on Parenchyma Bands Containing Vessels with Large Pits
creator
Carlquist, Sherwin.
creator
Eckhart, V. M. (Faculty/Staff)
Title
Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. II. GeneraOther Tan Eriodictyon, with Comments on Parenchyma Bands Containing Vessels with Large Pits
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Grinnell College. Biology
Index Date
1984
Publisher
Grinnell College
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Essays
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21 pages
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Carlquist, Sherwin and Eckhart, Vincent M. (1984) "Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. II. Genera Other Tan Eriodictyon, with Comments on Parenchyma Bands Containing Vessels with Large Pits," Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany: Vol. 10: Iss. 4, Article 4. Also available at: htp://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso/vol10/iss4/4
note
Although the family Hydrophyllaceae is largely herbaceous, woody species and genera present a series of interesting problems which invite study by means of wood anatomy. One concern of this paper and its antecedent (Carlquist, Eckhart and Michener 1983) is whether Hydrophyllaceae is basically an herbaceous or woody family. The potential parallel between the distinctive habits of particular genera and species and their wood anatomy provides other questions. For example, is raylessness in some Hydrophyllaceae the result of secondary woodiness, as appears to be the case in other families? Does the wood of Wigandia, the most arborescent genus in the family, approach an herbaceous or a woody mode of wood structure more closely?
Language
English
Topic
Wood
Topic
Anatomy
Geographic
North America
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QK
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http://hdl.handle.net/11084/26664
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eckhart
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BIO
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grinnell:26664
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