Micromorphology studies of three important medicinal  plants of Asclepiadaceae family

Swati R. PATEL; Aruna G. JOSHI; Ashutosh R. PATHAK; Vinay M. RAOLE

doi:10.15835/nsb12110528

Authors

Swati R. PATEL The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Vadodara- 390002, Gujarat (IN)
Aruna G. JOSHI The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Vadodara- 390002, Gujarat (IN)
Ashutosh R. PATHAK The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Vadodara- 390002, Gujarat (IN)
Vinay M. RAOLE The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Vadodara- 390002, Gujarat (IN)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15835/nsb12110528

Keywords:

epidermis; foliar characters; Hemidesmus indicus; Leptadenia reticulata; stomatal index; trichome type; Tylophora indica

Abstract

Asclepiadaceae family contains many medicinally important species of which Hemidesmus indicus, Leptadenia reticulata and Tylophora india were selected for the present micromophological studies. It was revealed that different types of stomata like anomocytic, anisocytic and paracytic were present only on abaxial surfaces of leaves. However maximum anomocytic stomata i.e. 25.50±0.43 were observed in L. reticulata followed by H. indicus (24.54±0.31) and T. indica (11.36±0.16). Similarly, observation for trichomes revealed that they were present on abaxial surface in H. indicus and T. indica whereas in L. reticulata on both of the surfaces present. They varied in their type as unicellular in H. indicus whereas multicellular trichomes in L. reticulata and T. indica. This different micromorphological characters will help in identification of authentic plant species.

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