From AHPA Botanical Identity References Compendium
Nomenclature
Botanical Voucher Specimen
Organoleptic Characteristics
Color: Unpeeled – yellowish or purplish brown to dark brown externally and yellowish internally. Peeled – pale yellow.
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Aroma/Odor: Characteristic
Flavor/Taste: Sweet, sugary
Source: American Herbal Products Association. March 2013. Organoleptic Analysis of Herbal Ingredients. AHPA: Silver Spring, MD [3]
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Macroscopic Characteristics
"...Root nearly cylindrical up to 2 cm in diameter, externally wrinkled with patches of cork. Fracture, coarsely fibrous in bark and splintery in wood."
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Microscopic Characteristics
"Rhizome: Transverse section of stolon more or less rounded. Phellem severeal layered with tabular cells; outer layers filled with reddish brown contents, inner colourless. Phellogen indistinct; phelloderm three to five layered, collenchymatous; some of the cells contain calcium oxalate and minute starch grains. Secondary phloem with numerous concentrically arranged bundles of phloem fibres and surrounded by a parenchymatous sheath containing prisms of calcium oxalate. Medullary rays distinct, bi-to multiseriate, parenchymatous, in continuation with those of xylem. The rays are narrower in xylem and wider in phloem region. Xylem consists of vessels, fibres and lignified wood parenchyma. The unpeeled drug shows the presence of polyhedral tubular brownish cork cells. In case of stolons, the pith is present and is parenchymatous. The root is characterized by the presence of tetrarch xylem and absence of pith.
Powder Microscopy: It shows plenty of starch grains, hexagonal crystals vessel elements are with reticulate wall pitting."
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High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Supplementary Information
Sources
- ↑ Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 27 Feb 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100253567>
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- ↑ American Herbal Products Association. March 2013. Organoleptic Analysis of Herbal Ingredients. AHPA: Silver Spring, MD http://www.ahpa.org/
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- ↑ Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz- Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1885)
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/2447928
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/24932881
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- ↑ Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/19163752
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- ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/