MALVACEAE STERCULIOIDEAE Firmiana SPP.
MALVACEAE STERCULIOIDEAE Firmiana papuana Mildbr. (LACEWOOD)
Specimen:
| FPAw ngf.7416 - MALVACEAE STERCULIOIDEAE Firmiana papuana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Features: |
| 1v |  Growth ring boundaries distinct |
| 2 | Growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent |
| 4v | Wood semi-ring-porous |
| 5 | Wood diffuse-porous |
| 13 | Simple perforation plates |
| 22 | Intervessel pits alternate |
| 23 | Shape of alternate pits polygonal |
| 25 | Small - 4 - 7 µm |
| 30 | Vessel-ray pits with distinct borders; similar to intervessel pits in size and shape throughout the ray cell |
| 42 | 100 - 200 µm |
| 43v | >= 200 µm |
| 53 | 350 - 800 µm |
| 61 | Fibres with simple to minutely bordered pits |
| 66 | Non-septate fibres present |
| 68v | Fibres very thin-walled |
| 69 | Fibres thin- to thick-walled |
| 72 | 900-1600 µm |
| 73v | >= 1600 µm |
| 76v | Axial parenchyma diffuse |
| 79v | Axial parenchyma vasicentric |
| 80v | Axial parenchyma aliform |
| 83 | Axial parenchyma confluent |
| 85v | Axial parenchyma bands more than three cells wide |
| 91 | Two cells per parenchyma strand |
| 92 | Four (3-4) cells per parenchyma strand |
| 98 | Larger rays commonly 4 - to 10 seriate |
| 99v | Larger rays commonly > 10-seriate |
| 102 | Ray height > 1 mm |
| 103 | Rays of two distinct sizes |
| 106 | Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and / or square marginal cells |
| 107 | Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2-4 rows of upright and / or square marginal cells |
| 110 | Sheath cells |
| 111v | Tile cells |
| 115 | 4-12 / mm |
| 119 | Low rays storied, high rays non-storied. |
| 120 | Axial parenchyma and / or vessel elements storied |
| 121 | Fibres storied |
| 136 | Prismatic crystals present |
| 138 | Prismatic crystals in procumbent ray cells |
| 141 | Prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells |
| 142 | Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells |
| 144 | Druses present |
| 171 | Southeast Asia and Pacific (Brazier and Franklin region 76) |
| 172 | Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia (Indochina) |
| 173 | Indomalesia: Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Papua, New Guinea, and Solomon Islands |
| 189 | Tree |
| 192v | Wood of commercial importance |
| 193 | Basic specific gravity low, <= 0.40 |
| 199 | Heartwood basically yellow or shades of yellow |
| 200 | Heartwood basically white to grey |
| Diameter: to 80-100 cm diameter |
| Height: to 40 m tall |
| Foliar Habit: deciduous - MALVACEAE STERCULIOIDEAE Firmiana SPP. |
| Reference: Sosef, M.S.M., L.T. Hong, & S. Prawirohatmodjo (eds.). 1998. Plant Resources of South-East Asia. No. 5 (3). Timber trees: Lesser-known timbers. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 859 pp. |