Palynodiversity in Dyspepsia (Indigestion) curing taxa of tribal areas in Adilabad District of Telangana State, India

摘要

Dyspepsia (Indigestion) is a disease is common to the local tribes such as Gonds, Kolam, Koya, Thoties, Lambada, Naikapods, Pardhans, Manne and Yerukalas inhabiting Adilabad District. The ethnic tribes have been widely using different ethnomedicinally important plants like Aegle marmelos,Artemesia vulgaris, Asparagus racemosus, Cassia fistula, Diospyros melanoxylon, Leonotis nepetaefolia, Manihot esculenta, Murraya koenigii, Ocimum tenuiflorum, Emblica officinalis, Piper longum, Plectranthes barbatus, Pongamia pinnata, Psidium guajava, Punica granetum and Tectona grandis belonging to the families Rutaceae, Asteraceae, Liliaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Ebenaceae, Lamiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Piperaceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, Punicaceae and Verbenaceae families to cure this disorder. The pollen of these ethnomedicinally important plants have diversity of apertural characters viz.,tricolporate, trizonocolporate, monosulcate, tricolpate, inaperturate, hexazonocolpate, pentacolpate, hexacolpate, syncolpate, and diversity of sculpture viz., psilate, scabrate, microreticulate, reticulate, gammate and very faintly reticulate, besides variation in symmetry, shape and polarity. These variations in the pollen morphology of the aforesaid plants are useful in the identification and confirmation of various plants in curing the diseases by the tribal communities of Adilabad District,