PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDY OF AVICENNIA OFFICINALIS L. GROWING IN EGYPT PART I: MACRO AND MICROMOROPHOLOGY OF THE STEMS AND LEAVES

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Abstract

The Macro and micromorophological characters of the stem and leaf of Avicennia officinalis L. growing in Egypt are presented to show the diagnostic characters of these orange by which they could be identified and differentiated in the entire and powdered forms.