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It is an important technique for powdered drug ,especially when chemical & other method fail as accurate measure of quality. Lycopodium is composed of spores of lycopodium elavatum.I. Each spore is tetrahedral in shape, The base is rounded and the threeside wallmakes the three well marked covering ridge, which join one other at filled with fixed oil. The spore are exceptionally uniform in size(25µm) and the shape tetrahedral so that one can always know that a definite no. of spore present in particular weight of lycopodium. On an average 94000 spores per mg of powdered lycopodium are present. Using this figure one can calculate the weight of any number of spores under any condition underthe microscope.
Pharmacognosy Research was created in 2007.
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Pharmacognosy Reviews was created in 2007.
Lycopodium Clavatum also called Wolfsfoot
An abstriction is a method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the spore are cut off through the growth of septa.
lycopodium is mainly used for lower parts
Lycopodium is a clubmoss which is homosporous
at is the difference between natural products and pharmacognosy
Lycopodium is homosporous producing only one type of spores.
Edmund H. Gathercoal has written: 'Pharmacognosy' -- subject(s): Pharmacognosy
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