sthulgokshura :
Morphology:
P. murex is a shrubby herb having a stiff-stemmed[5]. It
is a diffuse annual, much branched, spreading, succulent,
glandular plant up to 50 cm tall. Leaves alternate,
repandangulate, flower axillary, pedicel with a pair of yellow
glands[30]. The plant is classified and placed taxonomically
under the Kingdom- plantea, division- magnoliophyta,
class- magnoliopsida, order- lamiales, familypedaliaceae, genus- Pedalium L. Microscopic studies
of the leaf of P. murex showed prominent midrib, slightly
thicker lateral veins, uniformely thick lamina with smooth
surface, spindle shaped thin walled epidermal cell, flat
petiole with slight concavity on the adaxial, glandular type
of trichomes on both abaxial and adaxial sides, reticulate
venation with thick and straight veins and anisocytic type
stomata was found to present in the abaxial surface[40].
Generally there are more than hundred species present and
they differ taxonomically from each other in various ways.
Among the subtypes of longitudinal dehiscence, latrorse
type is most common found in 114 species, followed by
extrorse and introrse types in 49 and 28 taxa respectively.
The poricidal anther types were specific for only few genera
such as Pedalium[
