Foeniculum vulgare (fruit) - Revision history

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 principal ridges and six large vittae.
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 =Microscopic Characteristics=

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+{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Foeniculum vulgare'' (fruit) }} {{askbox|herb=''Foeniculum vulgare''}}
 =Nomenclature=
 {{nomenclature | binomial=Foeniculum vulgare

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 =Botanical Voucher Specimen=
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               | reference=Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 21 Mar 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100013734>
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-{{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
+{{Organolepsy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
 | description=[''Foeniculum vulgare'' has an] aromatic odor; taste strong, sweet and camphoraceous.

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 =Botanical Voucher Specimen=
 =Organoleptic Characteristics=
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 The powder is yellowish-brown consisting of irregular angular fragments; tissues of endosperm, colorless, the cells filled with aleurone grains, each containing a rosette aggregate of calcium oxalate, about 0.002 mm. in diameter; fragments containing yellowish-brown vittae, from 0.1 to 0.2 mm. in width; sclerenchymatous fibers few, strongly lignified and with numerous, oblique, simple pores; parenchyma cells with more or less thick walls and simple pores and occasionally reticulately thickened; tracheae few and either spiral or annular; in mounts made with hydrated chloral T.S., numerous globules of a fixed oil separate.
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 =High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification=
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 Test for other species: No intense dark blue zone is seen at Rf ~ 0.78 (white arrow, Bitter Fennel fruit). No light blue zone is seen at Rf ~ 0.62 (red arrow, Anise fruit or Caraway fruit). No brownish zones are seen at Rf ~ 0.32 and 0.38 (green arrows, Caraway fruit).
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 =Botanical Voucher Specimen=
 =Organoleptic Characteristics=
 =Macroscopic Characteristics=
 {{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
-| description=Fennel Fruit is the ripe fruit of
+| description=Fennel Fruit is the ripe fruit of ''Foeniculum vulgare'', Mill., collected from cultivated plants, and dried.
 ''Foeniculum vulgare'', Mill., collected from cultivated plants, and dried.
 ''Foeniculum vulgare'' is a stout, glabrous biennial or perennial, aromatic
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 Seeds are described as small, oblong, straight or slightly curved,
-from three to ten millimetres
+from three to ten millimetres long, and from two to four millimetres in diameter. Greenish or
 long, and from two to four millimetres in diameter. Greenish or
 greenish-brown. Each of the two mericarps with five prominent
-principal ridges and six large vittae. Aromatic odor; taste strong, sweet
+principal ridges and six large vittae.
-and camphoraceous.
-−
-The odor of fennel seed is fragrant, its taste warm. sweet, and agreeably
-aromatic.
 }}
+|}
 =Microscopic Characteristics=
 {{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
-| description=Under the microscope, transverse sections of
+| description=Under the microscope, transverse sections of Fennel show a pentagonal mericarp, four of the edges being nearly equal and slightly concave, the other or commissural surface being much longer and more or less undulate; cells of the seed-coat closely united with those of the pericarp, giving the section two very distinct areas, the inner and larger portion (endosperm) more or less rounded pentagonal and somewhat reniform, composed of polygonal cells, filled with aleurone grains containing rosette aggregates of calcium oxalate and a thin protoplasmic layer enclosing a fixed oil; the outer or pericarp layer distinguished by large elliptical vittae with thick, brown walls, occurring singly and alternating with the primary ribs, and two vittae on the dorsal surface, making usually six vittae in all, there sometimes being, however, one or two vittae additional; in the central portion of each of the ribs occurs a nearly circular, fibro-vascular bundle with a few tracheae and numerous thin-walled, strongly lignified sclerenchymatous fibers.
 Fennel show a pentagonal mericarp, four of the edges being nearly
 equal and slightly concave, the other or commissural surface being
 much longer and more or less undulate; cells of the seed-coat closely
 united with those of the pericarp, giving the section two very distinct
 areas, the inner and larger portion (endosperm) more or less rounded pentagonal
 and somewhat reniform, composed of polygonal cells, filled
 with aleurone grains containing rosette aggregates of calcium oxalate
 and a thin protoplasmic layer enclosing a fixed oil; the outer or pericarp
 layer distinguished by large elliptical vittae with thick, brown walls,
 occurring singly and alternating with the primary ribs, and two vittae
 on the dorsal surface, making usually six vittae in all, there sometimes
 being, however, one or two vittae additional; in the central portion of
 each of the ribs occurs a nearly circular, fibro-vascular bundle with a
 few tracheae and numerous thin-walled, strongly lignified sclerenchymatous
-fibers. The powder is yellowish-brown consisting of irregular
-angular fragments; tissues of endosperm, colorless, the cells filled with
-aleurone grains, each containing a rosette aggregate of calcium oxalate,
-about 0.002 mm. in diameter; fragments containing yellowish-brown
-vittae, from 0.1 to 0.2 mm. in width; sclerenchymatous fibers few,
-strongly lignified and with numerous, oblique, simple pores;
-parenchyma cells with more or less thick walls and simple pores and
-occasionally reticulately thickened; tracheae few and either spiral or
-annular; in mounts made with hydrated chloral T.S., numerous globules
-of a fixed oil separate.
-}}
 =High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification=
 {{HPTLC | source=HPTLC Association

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 =Nomenclature=
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 {{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
 | description=Fennel Fruit is the ripe fruit of
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-=Microscopic Entries=
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 {{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
 | description=Under the microscope, transverse sections of
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-=HPTLC Entries=
+=High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification=
 {{HPTLC | source=HPTLC Association
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-=Other Points of Interest=
+=Supplementary Information=
+=Sources=
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