Austrovideira Rozefelds et M.R.Pace

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001540

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1540

Authors: A. C. Rozefelds & M. R. Pace

Rank: genus

Reference: Rozefelds, A. C. & Pace, M. R. (2018): The first record of fossil Vitaceae wood from the Southern Hemisphere, a new combination for Vitaceoxylon ramunculiformis, and reappraisal of the fossil record of the grape family (Vitaceae) from the Cenozoic of Australia. – Journal of Systematics and Evolution 56(4): 283–296.

Page of description: 285

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Wood with distinct growth ring boundaries, vessels of two different diameter classes, wide vessels usually solitary, narrow vessels forming radial chains, intervessel pits scalariform, very wide and tall rays, which are homocellular, composed exclusively of procumbent cells, scanty paratracheal
parenchyma and septate fibres. Secondary phloem has a clear stratified structure, with fibre bands alternating with the other axial elements.

Etymology

The genus is named after Austro for southern and Videira which is the Portuguese word for grape vine.