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*Fibres 900-1600 μm long, with an average diameter of 19 μm, non-septate, moderately thick-walled (3.5-4μm), with simple to minutely bordered pits.
*Parenchyma moderately abundant, paratracheal, aliform, mainly vasicentric, forming complete or incomplete borders to the vessels, and tending to form discontinuous confluent layers; terminal parenchyma present at the borders of the growth rings.
*Rays 4-7(-12)/mm, usually 4-10-seriate, 200-800μm 800 μm high, 40-60μm and 1-3 cells wide, heterogeneous (Kribs type heterogeneous II and III).
*Crystals absent, silica bodies often present in ray cells.