WOOD ANATOMY OF CITES-LISTED TREE SPECIES

The wood anatomy of all currently CITES-listed angiosperm and conifer tree taxa is illustrated with low- to high-power magnification light micrographs. Their diagnostic wood features are presented in numerical codes taken from the IAWA Hardwood (1989) and Softwood (2004) Lists of microscopic features for wood identification. Features used are summarized in two appendices. These descriptions and illustrations can be used for genus identification when carefully compared with look-alike non-CITES-listed timbers illustrated and described in the Inside Wood web-database or present in reference wood collections.