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Wood anatomical characteristics of Castanopsis kurzii, Lithocarpus fenestrata, Quercus griffthii, Quercus lamellosa and Quercus spicata were studied to determine intergeneric and intrageneric similarities and dissimilarities. Vasicentric tracheids, apotracheal diffuse, diffuse-in-aggregate axial parenchyma were the common characteristics among genera. Lithocarpus differed from Quercus and Castanopsis by presence of exclusively solitary vessels with diffuse porous wood and indistinct growth rings, long vessels with helical thickenings restricted to their tails, scalariform perforation plate, scalariform and opposite intervessel pits, vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple and scalariform, maximum vessel frequency (32/mm2) and vessel percentage (41%), heterocellular and biseriate rays. Castanopsis was highly similar to Quercus except the absence of aggregate rays. All three selected species of Quercus were closely related and were characterized by the presence of simple perforation plate, opposite intervessel pits, vessel-ray pits with much reduced border pits to apparently simple and vertical (palisade), gelatinous fibres and aggregate rays. However, Q. griffthii could be separated from Q. lamellosa and Q. spicata by diagonally arranged vessels, homocellular rays and chambered crystalliferous axial parenchyma. Q. spicata differed from other species by the absence of gelatinous fibres and the presence of axial parenchyma in the form of bands alternating with fibres.
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Sharma, M., Shylla, W., Sharma, C.L. (2017). Wood Anatomy of Some Members of Family Fagaceae from North-East India. In: Pandey, K., Ramakantha, V., Chauhan, S., Arun Kumar, A. (eds) Wood is Good. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3115-1_9
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