View source for Valeriana officinalis (root)

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Valeriana officinalis'' (root)}} {{askbox|herb=''Valeriana officinalis''}}
=Nomenclature=
{{nomenclature | binomial=Valeriana officinalis
|authority=L.
|family=Valerianaceae
|scn=valerian
|syn=''Valeriana exaltata'' J.C. Mikan
|ayurvedic=sugandhbala; tagara
|pinyin=
|aka=garden heliotrope; garden valerian
|notes= }}

=Botanical Voucher Specimen=

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             | source=MOBOT, Tropicos.org
             | mainimage=Valeriana_officinalis_Tropicos_55415.jpg
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             | companyURL=http://www.tropicos.org/Image/55415
             | reference=Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 26 Mar 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/55415>

             | source2=MOBOT, Tropicos.org
             | image2=Valeriana_officinalis_Tropicos_55418.jpg
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             | companyURL2=http://www.tropicos.org/Image/55418
             | reference=Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 26 Mar 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/55418>

             | source3=MOBOT, Tropicos.org
             | image3=Valeriana_officinalis_Tropicos_100187916.jpg
             | companyimage3=TropicosLogo.gif
             | companyURL3=http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100187916
             | reference=Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 26 Mar 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100187916>

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             | image4=Valeriana officinalis D31406JD A0951.jpg
             | source4= Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories 

             | }}

=Organoleptic Characteristics=
=Macroscopic Characteristics=
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{{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918)
| description=Official or great wild valerian (''Valeriana officinalis'') is a large, handsome, herbaceous plant, with a perennial rhizome, and an erect, round, channelled stem, from two to four feet high, furnished with opposite pinnate leaves, and terminating in flowering branches. The leaves of the stems are attached by abort, broad sheaths; the radical leaves are larger and long petiolate. In the former the leaflets are lanceolate and partially dentate, in the latter elliptical and deeply serrate. The flowers are small, white or rose-colored, agreeably odorous, and disposed in terminal corymbs interspersed with pear-shaped bracts. The number of the stamens is three. The fruit is a capsule containing one oblong-ovate, compressed seed. }}

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|image3=Alkemists Valeriana officinalis L. -Valerianaceae--1 macro cut sifted.jpg
           |source3= Botanical Voucher Specimen Library, Alkemists Laboratories }}
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=Microscopic Characteristics=
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         {{Microscopy | source=Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories
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            | companyimage=AP-LOGO-Laboratories Crop - Copy.jpg
            | description=The most distinctive element is the parenchyma cells packed with starch and the fragment of the root hair when viewed at 400X Acidified chloral Hydrate Soln.
            | reference=W.H.O. Monographs Vol. #1 1999
            | }}

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|mainimage=Alkemists_Valeriana_officinalis_L._-Valerianaceae--2.jpg
           |caption1=Parenchyma cells packed with starch 400X Acidified Chloral Hydrate Soln.
           |source= Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories
|image2=Alkemists_Valeriana_officinalis_L._-Valerianaceae--3.jpg
           |caption2=Fragment of a ''Valeriana officinalis'' root hair 400X Acidified Chloral Hydrate Soln.
           |source2= Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories
}}

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=High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification=

=Supplementary Information=

=Sources=

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