Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2011, 59(6), 367-372 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201159060367

First anatomically characterized wood from the Tertiary of Moravia: Spiroplatanoxylon from the area of Austerlitz (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic)

Ingrid Továrková1, Vladimír Gryc2, Jakub Sakala3
1 Ústav geologických věd, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Česká republika
2 Ústav nauky o dřevě, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika
3 Ústav geologie a paleontologie, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Česká republika

A new silicified angiosperm wood from the alluvial sediments in Vážany nad Litavou (SW of Slavkov/Austerlitz near Brno, Vyškov district) is described. The wood is diffuse-porous with indistinct growth ring boundaries. Vessels are exclusively solitary with helical thickenings and scalariform perforation plates. Rays are very high and up to 18 cells wide, homocellular to slightly heterocellular. Crystals are present in axial parenchyma mostly in chambered cells, rarely in idioblasts. The fossil is attributed to Spiroplatanoxylon mueller-stollii Süss. Other species of Spiroplatanoxylon are also discussed. Wood anatomical descriptions from the eastern part of the Czech Republic published so far deal either with the Silesian Tertiary or describe only partially lignified probably Quaternary material; therefore the present paper can be considered as the first detailed anatomical description of the Tertiary wood from Moravia.

Keywords: silicified angiosperm wood, Spiroplatanoxylon, Tertiary, Moravia, Czech Republic
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The research was supported by the grants GA205/08/0643, MSM0021620855 and MSM6215648902.

Received: June 2, 2011; Published: March 16, 2014  Show citation

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Továrková, I., Gryc, V., & Sakala, J. (2011). First anatomically characterized wood from the Tertiary of Moravia: Spiroplatanoxylon from the area of Austerlitz (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic). Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 59(6), 367-372. doi: 10.11118/actaun201159060367
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