INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES,
ENGINEERING & PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Md. Rageeb Md. Usman, Bharat V. Jain, Tanvir Y. Shaikh, Zuber Shaikh

Suresh Patil College of Pharmacy

The objective of present studies deals with the macroscopical and microscopical studies of leaves of Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn. Some distinct and different characters were observed with section of young thin leaves. The midrib is flat on the adaxial side and shallowly hemispherical on the abaxial side. The vascular bundle is collateral. The xylem elements are few and phloem elements are as a thin band beneath the xylem on the abaxial part. Palisade mesophyll tissue is present on both abaxial and adaxial sides of the lamina. Physiochemical parameter and Preliminary phytochemical studies of the leaves powder were also carried out. The present study on Pharmacognostical investigation of Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn. leaves might be useful to supplement information in regard to its identification parameters assumed significantly in the way of acceptability of herbal drugs in present scenario lacking regulatory laws to control quality of herbal drugs.