Journal of
Medicinal Plants Research

  • Abbreviation: J. Med. Plants Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0875
  • DOI: 10.5897/JMPR
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 3835

Full Length Research Paper

Trichomes diversity in the tropical flora of Pakistan

Gulzar Khan1,2*, Faqi Zhang2, Qingbo Gao2, Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani1, Khalid Rehman1, Mir Ajab Khan1 and Shilong Chen2
1Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan. 2Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 15 November 2011
  •  Published: 10 June 2013

Abstract

Trichomes diversity from the study of foliar epidermal anatomy has been studied for 51 species belonging to 40 genera and 20 families. In the studied plant species, 10 different types of trichomes were observed for both glandular and eglandular types. Among these species, 38 are amphitrichomic while the remaining 13 are either epitrichomic or hypotrichomic. The most frequent types of trichomes were attenuate and uniseriate types.

 

Key words: Trichomes, foliar epidermis, glandular, eglandular.