Abstract

ANATOMICAL STANDARDIZATION OF BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULA (LINN.) GAERTN. LEAVES.

Zeeba Ghaznavi and Meenakshi Vaidya*

Abstract

Pharmacognosy - is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources. It is defined as the study of crude drugs. Medicinal plants have curative properties due to the presence of various complexes. Anatomical studies of crude drugs play a very important role in identification of purity and quality of crude drugs. The plant Barringtonia acutangula is commonly called as Samundarphal or Indian oak belonging to the family Myrtaceae. The present study is will help in the evaluation of the drug using anatomical characters of the leaves like venation, stomata & transverse sectional studies. The venation is found to be Camptodromous festooned brochidodromous. & the stomata are brachyparatetracytic. The study will provide proper identification of crude drug i.e. Barringtonia acutangula leaves.

Keywords: Barringtonia acutangula, Myrtaceae, anatomy, venation, Camptodromous, stomata, brachyparatetracytic.