INVESTIGATION OF A DICOT WOOD FROM THE DECCAN INTERTRAPPEAN BEDS OF NAGPUR DIST., MAHARASHTRA.
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https://doi.org/10.36676/jrps.2021-v12i3-29Keywords:
Fossil,, petrified,, dicot,Abstract
A petrified wood is described in this paper. The specimen was collected from Mhurzari, Nagpur Dist. Which is about 20 kms. from Nagpur, which is of uppermost Cretaceous to lower Eocene age. The wood is decorticated, diffused porous and without growth rings. Vessel solitary with radial multiples of 2-3, medium sized. Pearforation simple; intervascular pits alternate, bordered; parenchyma paratracheal vasicentric. Rays mostly multiseriate with few uniseriate, homogeneous, procumbent, fibers long, non-septate, moderately thick with intercellular spaces, named as Leucaenoxylon mahurzarii sp. nov
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