PJB-1995-8
A MICROMORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF POGOSTEMON DESF. SPECIES (LAMIACEAE) FROM BANGLADESH
SYEDA S. TAHIR*, MAHBUBA KHANAM AND SYED Z. HUSAIN
Abstract
An investigation of leaf, calyx and nutlet microcharacters of 13 species of the genus Pogostemon found in Bangladesh was conducted using the SEM and their reliability as taxonomic markers is discussed. Leaf surfaces are mostly covered with glandular and non-glandular trichomes. Stomata are paracytic mostly levelled with epidermal surface or rarely elevated. In some species leaf surface is rough and have undulating ridges under which sessile glandular hairs are sunken. Calyx surface of all the species have trichomes. Nutlet sculpturing shows mostly reticulate or irregular shallow discoid pattern with undulating ridges.
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