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My mini project is still on progress and having some difficulty because of the hairy of the plant. Be patient is the great medicine for me now..
there are some spelling error that i've notice:
1) amphistomatic should be amphianisocytic

i'm so sorry for my mistake. My computer have been formated because of the devil viruses that made my computer hung. Not just hung on, even can't be switch on..

I 'll load up type of stomata that can be observed on leaves on my next blog. I'll be please if there would be comment if anyone who have stop by to my blog. Or any information on this Malvaceae family that could at least share together. Thank you.

Abutilon indicum

This is Abutilon indicum. Also known as Kembang Luhur. What so special to this plant is the time of flower blossom only in the evening. It is a shrub 30-120 cm. Leaf with wide cordate, hairy. Seed is brownish colour and hairy.

In medicinal used, the leaf best to be boiled and used as patch on body or forehead because fever and place of ulser. The root can be hot compress to gums of the mouth because of toothache (Burkill 1935).

Reference:
1) Burkill, I. H. 1935. A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula. Kuala Lumpur: Ministry of Agriculture.


Below showed of the trichome and type of stomata. The trichome is undulating while the stomata is cylocytic. Also because too hairy, really need a lot of patient. This is my second attempt.

According to Raja Shanmuka Rao and Ramayya (1981) has the type of amphistomatic stomata present. While to Inamdar and Chohan (1969) the type of stomata that present is anomocytic.

Reference:

1) Raja Shanmuka Rao, S. and Ramayya, N. 1981. Distribution of Stomata and Its Relation To Plant Habit in Order Malvales. Indian J. Bot. 4 (2): 149-156. Malayan Nature Society.

2) Inamdar, J. A. Balakrishna Bhat, R. and Ramana Rao, T. V. 1983. Structure, Ontogeny, Classification, and Taxonomic Significance of Trichomes in Malvales. Korean journal of Botany. Vol. 26(3): 151-160

Urena lobata

Urena lobata is another species of my mini project. Also known as pulut-pulut. It is quite challenging for a new comer like me..because the leaf was hairy (too much of trichome).





Kind of woody shrub, with 1 m high and hairy. Leaf with apeks 5 -10 lobous wide. single flower on the short diaxil. Fruit covered by hook.





Mincing the fruit and used to threat diarrhoea. The leaf can be use to threat wound. Gonorea can be threat by drink the boiled leaf and root water.








This is the abaxial leaf. we can see here that the anticlin wall is sinous. Anomocytic is the type of stomata and this is also my third attempt.

According to Raja Shanmukha Rao and Ramayya (1981) stomata that been found in Urena lobata is amphistomatic. Due to this, found that there are at least 5 variety of Urena lobata in Malaysia but the variety being used is purplish flower with big leaf same as the picture above.




Reference: Raja Shanmuka Rao, S. dan Ramayya, N. 1981. Distribution of Stomata and Its Relation To Plant Habit in Order Malvales. Indian J. Bot. 4 (2): 149-156. Malayan Nature Society.

Hibiscus sabdariffa L.

In a while, let's get to know to Hibiscus sabdariffa L.. Also known as Roselle.

Shrub with 1 -2 m high. The stem is woody, with red or purpulish colour. Simple leaf, polimorf, with the shape ovate/lanceolate when young and change to palmate, lobous 3-5 segment. Petiol and lamina are red in colour. single flower, big, five pinkish petal and yellowish spot.

It has been use in Malay's cooking. It's known as asam susur. Hibiscus sabdariffa L. contain high vitamin C that needed in synthesis collagen, maintain teeth, and bone. It is also a strong antioxyde, helps in reduce toxin. Also helps in reducing weight which was one of experiment that had made Prof. Madya Dr. Mohamad Osman win gold medal in British Invention Show at London few days ago.

This is the shape of stomata and trichome of H. sabdariffa L. But the anticlinal wall can't be seen. This is my third attempt. yet still in progress to have the best result.

This the polaroid side of the above image. It is seen as kristal and scatter on the abaxial side. It could be the reason of anticyanin.

Beauty at the other side

Look at here, this is the stomata of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis which i've done. We can see that the stomata type can be anomocytic or anisocytic.

Both are my second attempt, and i'm still on progress.

According to Shanmukha Rao (1983), the type of stomata should be anisocytic because it is frequently can be found on the abaxial leaf. Different to Siti Zabidah (1993) in her undergraduate project at UKM, showed that the type of stomata for the abaxial leaf are paracytic.

I could think that the differences occured because of the geography. Shanmukha Rao done it in India and Siti Zabidah was done it in Malaysia. The morphology of the plant look similar but not the anatomy. And that is the reason plant anatomy also one of the important field in plant systematic.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

One of the species is Hibiscus rosa-sinensis.
Morphology
Small tree or shrubs.
Single leaf, dark green, serated margin.
Flower with at least five petals, long staminal.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is our national flower. But still in debating that it should not be our national flower. Commanly we call it bunga raya. Not only red in colour, also can be found in yellow, white, pink, purple colour. The flower taste sweet and some are neutral. it is good in reducing cough, and menstruation in women.

The leaf can reduce swollen boil, and skin fevered. Mincing the leaf and put on it. i've tried it once..and it's cool..also can put it on your hair and makes your hair bushy, and helps in breast fevered.

The root can be boiled, and take it as bath and you'll get cooler if you're in a bad fever..try it.

Welcome to Malvaceae World

Welcome to Malvaceae world!!


Do you recognise the picture aside? Yes, it is Urena lobata.
This is one species of my mini project. mmm....
This picture, i took from http://www.malvaceae.info.










Hibiscus sabdariffa L.. This is another species of my mini project. Known as Roselle. I took this picture from http://www.wikipedia.org/


In Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, there was reseach been done by Associated Prof. Dr. Mohammad Bin Osman. And my specimen are come from his farm..



Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. National flower. I took this picture from http://www.malvaceae.info/.

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Malvaceae world! Let me introduce to a family that important which also a part of plant that contain medicine use..

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing a number of genera, generally with five showy petals and five green sepals and numerous stamens that are fused at the base and form a tube around the pistil. Most species are herbs or shrubs but some species are trees. There are over 100 genera with close to 1,500 species in the family depending on the classification of some of the genera. Most species have stellate hairs and mucus like sap. The best recognized genera include Malva, Abutilon, Althaea, Lavatera, Abelmoschus, Malope, Hibiscus plus others that are grown as garden plants over many regions of the world.

In Malaysia, there are 6 from 27 genus. There are Hibiscus, Sida, Urena, Thespesia, Abutilon, and Wissadula according to Keng (1969) which stated in his book- Orders and families of Malayan seed plants. While, Corner's (1988) in his book- Wayside of trees Malaya, stated 8 genus with 15 wild species.

My interest is the leaf anatomy. I'm doing a mini project on it. it's very challenging and need fully patient on it. i even can't done it in Ramadhan days..cause it makes me want to eat all the time...and i've to break my fast if i do so..hehe

Here are the other species:

Abutilon indicum

This picture i took from http://www.iptek.net.id/

My picture will be uploaded later.

Honckenya ficifolia (syn Clappertonia ficifolia)

This picture i took from http://www.tropicalplant.air-nifty.com/

Plant have become medicine use since thousand's of year ago. It's a pleasure for me to have this oppurtunity, and special thanks to my supervisor- Dr. Noraini Talip, who always give the support to me. And not forget to Prof. Dr. Kamarudin Mat-Salleh who introduce us on using blog..