Wood Anatomy of Trees and Shrubs from China ii. Theaceae

Abstract

The wood anatomy of 95 species belonging to fifteen genera of the Theaceae native to China is described. Despite the wood anatomical homogeneity of the family it is possible to key out individual genera (p. 373) as long as the unknown material is confined to Chinese species. In general the wood of Theaceae can be characterised by exclusively solitary vessels, scalariform perforations, opposite to scalariform vessel wall pitting, ground tissue of long fibre-tracheids, parenchyma scanty paratracheal and apotracheally diffuse, and heterocellular rays.