Quantitative and qualitative data are presented for seven species of four genera of Resedaceae. Newly reported for the family are helical striations in vessels, vasicentric and marginal axial parenchyma, procumbent ray cells, and perforated ray cells. Wood features of Resedaceae may be found in one or more of the families of Capparales close to it (Brassicaceae, Capparaceae, Tovariaceae). Lack ...

Seed clumps of Capparis spinosa L. together with shoots, leaves and fruits of Cannabis sativa L. were unearthed in the Yanghai Tombs, Turpan District in Xinjiang, China. This is the first time that plant remains of Capparis spinosa have been discovered in China and the eastern part of Central Asia. Based on the joint occurrence of Capparis spinosa and Cannabis sativa, and the pharmacological va...

The macroscopic characters of the whole plant, physical constant values, extractive values, behavior on treatment with different chemical reagents, fluorescence characters under ultra violet light after treatment with different reagents of the powered entire plant of Cleome viscose Linn.(Capparidaceae) were studied to fix some pharmacognostical parameters. Preliminary phytochemical screening on...

Caparis spinosa Linn. popularly known as Caper plant is a naturally occurring medicinally important plant of the family Capparaceae. This plant has highly diverse economic and medicinal value in different system of medicine like, Unani, Chinese, Ayurvedicand Arabic. Various parts of C. spinosa are used as drug to treat different diseases especially against hepatic and renal problems. Extract of...

in this study, the essential oil content in the aerial parts of cleome heratensis which is growing in the east of iran was investigated. the aerial parts of the plant were collected from the late august to october 2014, for a total of four harvests (s1-s4). essential oils were isolated by hydro-distillation. the oils were analyzed by gc-fid and 30 constituents, representing 84.93-92.9 % of the ...