Paullinia cupana (seed)
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| + | {{Macroscopy | source=United States Dispensatory (1918) | ||
| + | | description=''Paullinia cupana'' Kunth is a climbing shrub with alternate compound impari-pinnate leaves ... The flowers are of yellowish color, growing in spicate panicles. The leaves are long petioled, the leaflets being 5 to 6 inches long by 2 or 3 inches wide, and sinuate dentate on the margins. The fruit is ovoid or pyriform and about the size of a grape, and contains 1 to 3 seeds which resemble small horse chestnuts. | ||
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| + | The seeds, which look like small horse-chestnuts, are lenticular and almost thorny, and invested with a flesh-colored arillus, which is easily separable when dry.}} | ||
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Revision as of 20:05, 31 March 2015
Contents |
Nomenclature
Botanical Voucher Specimen
Organoleptic Characteristics
Macroscopic Characteristics
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Microscopic Characteristics
High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Supplementary Information
Sources
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
