Nev Aspects in Medikinal Plants and Pxarmacognosy

Аннотация

P. racemosa (Mill) J.W. Moore, belongs to the genus Pimenta of the Mirtaceae family, is native to the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and Cuba, being widely cultivated in the American Tropics. The essential oil extracted from the leaves has disinfectant and astringentproperties and does not give rise to allergic reactions on people. In this work the pharmacognostic and chemical study of the species that grew in the city of Guayaquil, Guayas province (Ecuador), was carried out, on which it was possible to establish the macro and micromorphological characteristics of the species, that were researched for the first time, The physical-chemical quality parameters of the leaves of the species were also determined, aspects that were previously reported