Abstract
The wood anatomy of 17 species representing 14 genera has been investigated. The wood is diffuse porous. It is composed of vessels, tracheids, fibres, axial parenchyma and rays. The vessels are either scattered solitary or in radial or tangential multiples of two or three or in long radial chains. All the lianas and a few trees studied have two types of vessels with narrow and broad diameter. The vessels usually show a simple perforation plate. Two main types of xylem fibres, the fibre tracheids and the libriform fibres intergrade with each other. The xylem parenchyma is paratracheal, vasicentric and confluent to aliform. The rays are uni- or multiseriate, homogeneous or heterogeneous and their length varies in different species.
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