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Comparative wood anatomy of Eucryphia wilkiei and E. jinksii (Cunoniaceae): two narrow endemics from Queensland, Australia

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Imogen Poole A D and Richard W. Barnes B C
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Australian Journal of Botany 52(6) 739-745 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT04046
Submitted: 26 March 2004  Accepted: 6 August 2004   Published: 24 December 2004 

Abstract

Qualitative and quantitative wood anatomical data are given for two narrow Queensland endemic Eucryphia species, E. wilkiei B.Hyland and Eucryphia jinksii P.I.Forst. Comparisons of wood anatomy of all extant Eucryphia taxa show that E. jinksii and E. wilkiei are distinct from each other, and other Eucryphia species. However, for both species characters relating to perforation plates, helical thickening (E. wilkiei only) and fibres are shared with the South American species, whereas the presence of crystals in the axial parenchyma is shared only with the Australian species. These data suggest that, based on wood anatomy, E. jinksii and E. wilkiei are basal among Australian species.

Acknowledgments

 
We thank Paul Forster (Queensland Herbarium) for supplying the wood sample of Eucryphia jinksii, and Dewanad Makaham (Utrecht University) for sectioning the wood samples.

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