MACRO- AND MICROMORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE LEAF, STEM AND INFLORESCENCE OF ERANTHEMUM NERVOSUM T. ANDERS (FAM. ACANTHACEAE), CULTIVATED IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

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

2 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Abstract

Many ornamental plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae,
showed interesting medicinal activities in treating: cough, chronic
bronchitis, rheumatism, jaundice, ear troubles and fever. In
addition to treatment of some skin diseases. In the present work, the
detailed macro- and micromorphological characters of the leaf,
stem and inflorescence of Eranthemum nervosum T. Anders family
Acanthaceae, were studied with the aim to find out the diagnostic
elements of these organs, which facilitate their identification in
both entire and powdered forms.