pharmacognostical study of fumaria parviflora lam. growing in Egypt. Part1: Root and stem

ABSTRACT

A pharmacognostical study comprising macro- and micromorphological investigation, preliminary phytochemical screening proximate analysis and TLC investigation of successive extractives of root and stem of Fumaria parviflora Lam. growing in Egypt is presented. Macro- and micromorphological characteristics were found diagnostic and helpful in identity of both organs as well as in differentiating them from other closely related species both in the entire and powdered forms