Valeriana officinalis (root)
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+ | | description=Official or great wild valerian (''Valeriana officinalis'') is a large, handsome, herbaceous plant, with a perennial rhizome, and an erect, round, channelled stem, from two to four feet high, furnished with opposite pinnate leaves, and terminating in flowering branches. The leaves of the stems are attached by abort, broad sheaths; the radical leaves are larger and long petiolate. In the former the leaflets are lanceolate and partially dentate, in the latter elliptical and deeply serrate. The flowers are small, white or rose-colored, agreeably odorous, and disposed in terminal corymbs interspersed with pear-shaped bracts. The number of the stamens is three. The fruit is a capsule containing one oblong-ovate, compressed seed. }} | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:01, 21 April 2015
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Nomenclature
Valeriana officinalis L. Valerianaceae
Syn. Valeriana exaltata J.C. Mikan
Standardized common name (English): valerian
Ayurvedic name(s): sugandhbala; tagara
Botanical Voucher Specimen
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Organoleptic Characteristics
Macroscopic Characteristics
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Microscopic Characteristics
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High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Supplementary Information
Sources
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/55415
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/55418
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100187916
- ↑ Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
- ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
- ↑ Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
- ↑ Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
- ↑ Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com
- ↑ Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com