锦葵目蚬木属和柄翅果属的木材解剖学研究及其系统学意义

蚬木属(Excentrodendron H.T.Chang & R.H.Miau)与柄翅果属(Burretiodendron Rehder)的分离一直未得到广泛认同,二者在锦葵目中的系统地位也还不十分清楚.本文研究了柄翅果、元江柄翅果、滇桐和火绳树的木材解剖.柄翅果和元江柄翅果在木材解剖特征上非常相似,2～3个管孔组成径列复管孔,单管孔较多,导管分子无螺纹加厚,穿孔板单一,轴向薄壁组织稀少,射线异型IIB,单列射线少,多列射线常2～3列,具翅子树属型瓦形细胞;蚬木属单列射线罕见,瓦形细胞榴莲型,单列射线较高,木材解剖特征支持蚬木属和柄翅果属的分离;蚬木属和柄翅果属与滇桐属在木材解剖特征上差异显著,与火绳树属的差异也较明显,但与梧桐科翅子树属比较接近,与其它有关类群,如一担柴属、Luehea、Entelea以及Dombeyeae族等都有明显差异.     

圆籽荷属木材构造的研究

山茶科圆籽荷属(Apterospefma)木材为散孔材至半环孔材,管孔细,射线细,薄壁组织肉眼下不见,密度中偏大,纹理直,结构细。微观构造:在导管相互间纹孔式对列夏导管分子穿孔梯状的横栅24—77条,射线异形Ⅰ型。射线与导管问纹孔为较大不规则形单纹孔,对列,薄壁组织星散.1—2个细胞。     

8种木本旱生植物的木质部解剖学特性研究

从生态学角度对8种旱生植物木材的次生木质部结构进行了对比研究.结果表明,8树种次生木质部结构的共同特点为:生长轮分界明显(霸王和四合木的年轮有时不连续),半环孔材,单穿孔,导管壁间纹孔互列,木纤维无横隔膜,联合傍管轴向薄壁组织丰富,导管壁上呈现螺纹加厚,都具有异型射线;它们主要差异在于射线和导管的数量化指标:四合木异型射线1~2列,霸王、白刺、沙冬青和胡枝子射线2~5列,柽柳、柠条和花棒大型射线4~10列;导管分子长度和纤维长度在树种间和同一树种个体间差异较明显.四合木和沙冬青导管频率较大,导管管孔较小,因此Vulnerability和Mesomorphy值也较小,更能适应干旱环境.     

中国木兰科香木莲和合果含笑木材解剖的初步研究

本文对中国木兰科的香木莲(Mangliaia aromatica Dandy)和合果含笑[Parami-chelia baillonii(Piene)]及其与邻近属的木材解剖特征进行了初步的研究。香木莲导管无螺纹加厚,无油脂细胞,无傍管薄壁组织,轴向木薄壁组织仅宽2—3列细胞,单列木射线多而高,多列射线主要为 Kribs 异形Ⅱ_A 型等特征都落入木莲属导管无螺纹,多列射线异形Ⅱ_A 型,无油细胞,轴向木薄壁组织2—6列等特征的幅度之内。合果含笑的单列木射线稀少至无,导管有螺纹加厚,有油细胞等特征。     

四合木属四合木(蒺藜科)的木材解剖学研究

在光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜下观察了蒺藜科四合木属四合木(Tetraena mongolica Maim.)木材结构.其导管分子直径小,管壁厚,分布密度高,分子短,端壁几乎水平,具单穿孔;管间纹孔为对列或互列的具缘纹孔;韧性纤维短、壁厚、壁上有较少的单纹孔;同型单列射线、分布密度高;轴向薄壁组织散生或傍导管生.这些表明四合木的木材解剖特征是与干旱环境条件是相适应的.     

余甘子次生木质部导管分子观察研究

运用细胞图象分析系统及显微照相的方法,对余甘子次生木质部导管分子进行观察研究.结果发现,余甘子次生木质部导管分子中存在着许多不同的样式,导管分子大多数具尾;其穿孔板存在着两种类型:(1)两端均为1个单穿孔板;(2)一端为1个单穿孔板另一端为2个单穿孔板;(3)极少数的导管分子具有特殊的内含物;(4)管间纹孔式为互列纹孔式;(5)导管射线间纹孔式为混合型纹孔与横列刻痕状纹孔以及梯状穿孔.     

中国特有濒危植物崖柏的木材结构研究

应用光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜,首次对中国特有濒危植物崖柏的木材结构进行了研究,其主要特征为:生长轮中早材至晚材急变,晚材带较窄;轴向管胞较短,平均长度1.61±0.22mm(早材管胞)至1.74±0.26mm(晚材管胞),具缘纹孔单列,在纹孔缘外表面及其周围偶见少量稀疏瘤状物;交叉场纹孔为杉木型,2～6(8)个;木射线单列,高1～11(2～5)个细胞,每平方毫米具65～70条木射线,端壁节状加厚和凹痕均较明显;木薄壁组织细胞多分布在晚材带中,端壁节状加厚略明显。崖柏与该属的木材结构特征基本相符。在讨论中还与崖柏属其余4个种的木材结构特征作了详细比较。     

中国木兰科华盖木属的木材解剖和近缘属的关系

本文对最近在我国云南省西畴县热带雨林中发现的木兰科中的一个新的单种属——华盖木(Manglie-tastrum sinicum Law)的木材解剖特征进行首次报道:它具有较稀的管孔数目;单管孔占优势;导管侧壁具细螺纹加厚,底壁穿孔板横条数较多,为6—12枚,高达17枚;轴向薄壁组织轮界状,宽达9—12列细胞,还偶有稀疏傍管薄壁组织;木射线为Kribs异形ⅡA型,且在少数多列线中具略长的单列翼部分。这些解剖的,以及联系到外部形态特征,虽然和近缘的木莲属Manglietia Blume存在着一定的差别。但与本科其他各属比较,则又与“拟木莲属”(“Paramanglietia”Hu & Cheng)、香木兰属Aromadendron Blume、榻榔木属Talauma Juss.及木兰属Magnolia Linn.的多数种类,在木材构造中留存有较多的原始特征相类似。     

人工林青梅木材构造的初步研究

解剖了人工林青梅木材.用切片、显微摄影的方法,通过观测,得到如下结果:⑴导管、木纤维、轴向薄壁组织和射线薄壁组织的比例相近,但木纤维最多.⑵管孔数目随生长轮数的增加而减少,而导管切向直径却增加.⑶树木的实际生长年龄比生长轮数少得多.⑷木材解剖特征的演化不均一.同时,对木材性质与构造的关系、解剖特征的系统发育、木材生长的规律进行了初步探讨.     

中国连香树科的系统研究——Ⅱ.次生木质部的显微和超微结构

本文报道连香树木材解剖和扫描电镜研究结果,连香树木材特征较为原始,具导管和管胞,导管端壁斜、梯状穿孔板、具有超出穿孔板的三生螺旋加厚,管胞为原始的梯纹管胞,木纤维壁上具裂隙状纹孔,木薄壁组织离管型,星散状分布,木射线异型。     

Wood anatomy of selected Cucurbitaceae and its relationship to habit and systematics

Qualitive and quantitative data are presented on wood anatomy and cambial conformations of four species of Cucurbitaceae. Although all woody to various degrees, the four species were selected to show a wide range of habits and therefore to discern possible correlations between habit and wood anatomy. Vessels are widely spaced and libriform fibers are minimal where storage of water and carbohydrates is prominent. Axial parenchyma is dimorphic: lignified thick-walled paratracheal may lend strength to the vessel elements (which are wider than long), whereas thin-walled apotracheal parenchyma may lend flexibility to stems (especially in lianoid species) and serve for storage. Rays are multiseriate only and alter little from primary rays (but large multiseriate rays originate suddently in fascicular areas of one species). Distribution and abundance of libriform fibers relate to habit: most abundant in the shrubby Acanthosicyos , least in the storage-oriented lower stems of Apondanthera ). Vasicentric tracheids extend radially and interconnect vessels, potentially providing a subsidiary conductive system that would maintain the conductive pathways of the large vessels if some of those vessels were to be disabled or deactivated. Cucurbitaceae are characterized by septate fibers, vasicentric tracheids, and storied wood structure. Each of these features is found in at least half of the families now commonly included in Violales, to which Cucurbitaceae are thought to belong.     

Living Cells in Wood 3. Overview; Functional Anatomy of the Parenchyma Network

The very different evolutionary pathways of conifers and angiosperms are very informative precisely because their wood anatomy is so different. New information from anatomy, comparative wood physiology, and comparative ultrastructure can be combined to provide evidence for the role of axial and ray parenchyma in the two groups. Gnetales, which are essentially conifers with vessels, have evolved parallel to angiosperms and show us the value of multiseriate rays and axial parenchyma in a vessel-bearing wood. Gnetales also force us to re-examine optimum anatomical solutions to conduction in vesselless gymnosperms. Axial parenchyma in vessel-bearing woods has diversified to take prominent roles in storage of water and carbohydrates as well as maintenance of conduction in vessels. Axial parenchyma, along with other modifications, has superseded scalariform perforation plates as a safety mechanism and permitted angiosperms to succeed in more seasonal habitats. This diversification has required connection to rays, which have concomitantly become larger and more diverse, acting as pathways for photosynthate passage and storage. Modes of growth such as rapid flushing, vernal leafing-out, drought deciduousness and support of large leaf surfaces become possible, advantaging angiosperms over conifers in various ways. Prominent tracheid-ray pitting (conifers) and axial parenchyma/ray pitting to vessels (angiosperms) are evidence of release of photosynthates into conductive cells; in angiosperms, this system has permitted vessels to survive hydrologic stresses and function in more seasonal habitats. Flow in ray and axial parenchyma cells, suggested by greater length/width ratios of component cells, is confirmed by pitting on end walls of elongate cells: pits are greater in area, more densely placed, and are often bordered. Bordered pit areas and densities on living cells, like those on tracheids and vessels, represent maximal contact areas between cells while minimizing loss of wall strength. Storage cells in rays can be distinguished from flow cells by size and shape, by fewer and smaller pits and by contents. By lacking secondary walls, the entire surfaces of phloem ray and axial phloem parenchyma become conducting areas across which sugars can be translocated. The intercontinuous network of axial parenchyma and ray parenchyma in woods is confirmed; there are no “isolated” living cells in wood when three-dimensional studies are made. Water storage in living cells is reported anatomically and also in the form of percentile quantitative data which reveal degrees and kinds of succulence in angiosperm woods, and norms for “typically woody” species. The diversity in angiosperm axial and ray parenchyma is presented as a series of probable optimal solutions to diverse types of ecology, growth form, and physiology. The numerous homoplasies in these anatomical modes are seen as the informative results of natural experiments and should be considered as evidence along with experimental evidence. Elliptical shape of rays seems governed by mechanical considerations; unusually long (vertically) rays represent a tradeoff in favor of flexibility versus strength. Protracted juvenilism (paedomorphosis) features redirection of flow from horizontal to vertical by means of rays composed predominantly or wholly of upright cells, and the reasons for this anatomical strategy are sought. Protracted juvenilism, still little appreciated, occurs in a sizeable proportion of the world’s plants and is a major source of angiosperm diversification.     

Wood anatomy of Penaeaceae (Myrtales): comparative, phylogenetic, and ecological implications

Wood samples of stems, lignotubers, and roots of the majority of species of Penaeaceae were analyzed with respect to qualitative and quantitative features. Virtually no data have hitherto been presented on xylem features of this family, restricted to Cape Province, South Africa. Presence of vestured pits in vessels, septate crystalliferous parenchyma in wood, intraxylary phloem, predominantly erect ray cells in the typically narrow, multiseriate rays and in the uniseriate rays, and amorphous deposits in ray cells place Penaeaceae securely in Myrtales and help to define that order. By comparison of ecological preferences of the species, as observed during field work, with quantitative analysis of conductive tissue, close correspondence of the wood structure to habit and habitat is demonstrated.     

A search for phylogenetically informative wood characters within Lecythidaceae s.l

The wood structure of 71 species representing 24 genera of the pantropical Lecythidaceae s.l., including the edible Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) and the spectacular cannon-ball tree (Couroupita guianensis), was investigated using light and scanning electron microscopy. This study focused on finding phylogenetically informative characters to help elucidate any obscure evolutionary patterns within the family. The earliest diverging subfamily Napoleonaeoideae has mixed simple/scalariform vessel perforations, scalariform vessel-ray pitting, and high multiseriate rays, all features that are also present in Scytopetaloideae. The wood structure of Napoleonaea is distinct, but its supposed close relative Crateranthus strongly resembles Scytopetaloideae. The isolated position of Foetidia (Foetidioideae) can be supported by a unique type of vessel-ray pitting that is similar in shape and size to intervessel pitting (distinctly bordered, <5 μm). The more derived Planchonioideae and Lecythidoideae share exclusively simple perforations and two types of vessel-ray pitting, but they can easily be distinguished from each other by the size of intervessel pitting, shape of body ray cells in multiseriate rays, and the type of crystalliferous axial parenchyma cells. The anatomical diversity observed is clearly correlated with differences in plant size (shrubs vs. tall trees): the percentage of scalariform perforations, as well as vessel density, and the length of vessel elements, fibers, and multiseriate rays are negatively correlated with increasing plant size, while the reverse is true for vessel diameter.     

Relationships within balsaminoid Ericales: a wood anatomical approach

Wood samples of 49 specimens representing 31 species and 11 genera of woody balsaminoids, i.e., Balsaminaceae, Marcgraviaceae, Pellicieraceae, and Tetrameristaceae, were investigated using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The wood structure of Marcgraviaceae, Pellicieraceae, and Tetrameristaceae is characterized by radial vessel multiples with simple perforation plates, alternate vessel pitting, apotracheal and paratracheal parenchyma, septate libriform fibers, and the presence of raphides in ray cells. Tetrameristaceae and Pellicieraceae are found to be closely related based on the occurrence of unilaterally compound vessel-ray pitting and multiseriate rays with long uniseriate ends. The narrow rays in Pelliciera are characteristic of this genus, but a broader concept of Tetrameristaceae including Pelliciera is favored. Within Marcgraviaceae, wide rays (more than five-seriate) are typical of the genus Marcgravia. Furthermore, there is evidence that the impact of altitude and habit plays an important role in the wood structure of this family. The wood structure of Balsaminaceae cannot be compared systematically with other balsaminoids because of their secondary woodiness. Balsaminaceae wood strongly differs due to the presence of exclusively upright ray cells in Impatiens niamniamensis, the absence of rays in Impatiens arguta, and the occurrence of several additional paedomorphic features in both species.     

The Ecological Secondary Xylem Anatomy of 7 Desert Species of Leguminosae

The wood anatomy of 7 species (Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, Amorpha fruticosa, Halimodendron halodendron, Hedysarum mongolicum. Hedysarum scoparium, Lespedeza bicolor and Robinia pseudoacacia)of Leguminosae, which grow in desert regions of Northern China, is described in details. A comparative study on the quantitative wood anatomical characters among the species is made. Except some anatomical characters in A. fruticosa were larger in vessel diameter, thin walled in vessels and libriform fibres, all the rest six species showed a general similarities:vessel frequency/sq, mm very numerous and percentage of multiple vessels high; vessel elements very short, perforations simple and in almost horizontal end walls, intervessel bordered pits alternate and vestured; libriform fibres very short, and usually with thickened walls, and with simple pits; average ray height very low, and with multiseriate as well as uniseriate. However, there are differences in other characters, e. g. vessel distribution, percentage of solitary vessels; spiral thickenings present or absent; amount of axial parenchyma and distribution; ray frequency and type; crystals present or absent, and crystal distribution, if present. According to these anatomical diversities, a key to the identification of the 7 species is given. In this article, the relation between the structure of wood and the environmental influences has been discussed.     

广西金花茶木材解剖研究

本文对采自广西的14种金花茶木材进行解剖研究。管孔类型为散孔材至似半环孔材;木射线二列为主。全为异形组织;结晶体丰富。而且只存在于方形或直立射线细胞中。在射线细胞或轴向薄壁细胞腔中,可见一些细胞核及细胞质。细胞核的出现与物种的生态环境有关,生长于石灰土的金花茶,其木材中可见细胞核,而生长于酸性土的则不见。     

顶生金花茶木材构造的研究

似半环孔材;梯状复穿孔,横隔条数多;轴向薄壁组织星散聚合为主;射线组织异形Ⅰ型为主,2列射线占79％,多列射线融合成单列现象可见;细胞质及细胞核明显;结晶体菱形,仅见于方形或直立细胞。木材构造与柠檬黄金花茶Comellia limonia C.F.Liang et S.L.Mo相近似。     

Comparative wood anatomy ofCoriaria

Wood anatomy ofCoriaria was surveyed to clarify generic features on the basis of 14 species collected from various regions of the World to cover the whole range of geographic distribution and habitual variation. Wood anatomy ofcoriaria is considerably uniform, and the species share a combination of the following features: 1) pores are thin-walled, polygonal in outline and mostly in multiples; 2) vessel elements and libriform fibers are very short; 3) perforation plates are exclusively simple; 4) intervessel pits are alternate; 5) vascular tracheids are present; 6) wood parenchyma is vasicentric and sometimes confluent; 7) rays are heterogeneous and large. Its species differ in several characters, such as distinctness of growth rings, pore size, pore patterns, type and abundance of wood parenchyma, and distinctness of storied structure. Comparisons among species indicate that the species of the Northern Hemisphere show a tendency toward having semi-ring porosity, while those of the Southern and Western Hemisphere have diffuse porosity. The other infrageneric variations appear to be related to different habits of the species rather than to geographic distribution. Small trees mostly have confluent and vasicentric parenchyma composed of fusiform cells and distinctly storied tissues, while shrubs and herbs have less abundant parenchyma which is vasicentric and comprises strands of two to four cells and indistinctly storied tissues.     

Wood anatomical correlates with theoretical conductivity and wood density across China: evolutionary evidence of the functional differentiation of axial and radial parenchyma

Background and Aims

In recent years considerable effort has focused on linking wood anatomy and key ecological traits. Studies analysing large databases have described how these ecological traits vary as a function of wood anatomical traits related to conduction and support, but have not considered how these functions interact with cells involved in storage of water and carbohydrates (i.e. parenchyma cells).

Methods

We analyzed, in a phylogenetic context, the functional relationship between cell types performing each of the three xylem functions (conduction, support and storage) and wood density and theoretical conductivity using a sample of approx. 800 tree species from China.

Key Results

Axial parenchyma and rays had distinct evolutionary correlation patterns. An evolutionary link was found between high conduction capacity and larger amounts of axial parenchyma that is probably related to water storage capacity and embolism repair, while larger amounts of ray tissue have evolved with increased mechanical support and reduced hydraulic capacity. In a phylogenetic principal component analysis this association of axial parenchyma with increased conduction capacity and rays with wood density represented orthogonal axes of variation. In multivariate space, however, the proportion of rays might be positively associated with conductance and negatively with wood density, indicating flexibility in these axes in species with wide rays.

Conclusions

The findings suggest that parenchyma types may differ in function. The functional axes represented by different cell types were conserved across lineages, suggesting a significant role in the ecological strategies of the angiosperms.