Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53062 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Launaea pinnatifida | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 13 E 2 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | India Museumx0Dx0A | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Stem filiform, procumbent, bearing roots and leaves here and there; leaves crowded, sinuate - pinnatifid, lobes obtuse or sub acute; peduncles rather shorter than the leaf, having at the top scaly bracts which are scarious on the margin. (B, ombay Flora p.132) This plant has fleshy roots about the size of a croquill and 6 to 8 inches long; when fresh they are yellowish white. A section shows a yellow central fibro-vascular column, containing very large fenestrated vessels arranged in a radiat, ing manner. Beyond the radii the parenchyma is loaded with large colourless bodies of irregular size and shape, which gradually dimish in number towards the cortex where the parenchyma is not occupied by them. The cellular structure is delicate and the ce, lls large. These bodies appear to be cells distended by some solid, nearly transparent matter as they always correspond in form and position with neighbouring empty cells This plant is much used in Goa as a substitute for Taraxacum. | ||||
| Determinations: | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Launaea pinnatifida 88.00 COMPOSITAE Microrhynchus sarmentosus | ||||