Macroscopic and Morpho-Anatomical Diagnostic Features of Ziziphora bungeana Juz . From Kazakhstan

Studies have been conducted on organographic and anatomical structures of Ziziphora bungeana Juz. Diagnostic features which have been defined are as follows: aromatic plant with a specific pleasant smell. Stems are numerous, hardishly ribbed. Leaves are narrow-lanceolate or ovate. The plant has very thin hairs pointing downward. Anatomical diagnostic features include oil glands with eight radially arranged cells, glandular hairs with unicellular stalk and unicellular head, simple unicellular triangular-shaped hairs with roughly verrucose surface, and twoor three-celled thin-walled occasionally geniculate hairs. Cell walls of the leaf and stem epidermis have clearly visible thickenings. The stomatal complex is diacytic and has two phloem cells located transversely to the stomatic cleft with one of the subsidiary cells is less than the other. The stem is tetraquetrous. Under the epidermis there are several layers of the angular collenchyma arranged in four sides and consisting of the closely compressed, elongated and curved cells; two-three layers of the chlorenchyma cells are between the chlorenchyma bundles. The data obtained will be used in the future for prepation the Identification section of normative documents for medicinal plant raw materials of Ziziphora bungeana Juz.