Caracterização Anatômica Foliar de Mansoa Sp (Bignoniacaea), Conhecida Como "Cipó-D'alho"

Abstract

The flora of the Amazon region presents itself as a renewable source, suitable for the production of aromatic essences, as an alternative economic source for the development of the region. Within this context is the species Mansoa sp of the Bignoniaceae family, commonly known as cipó d'alho, which, due to the plurality of known species with the same name, aims to contribute through anatomical studies for its identification. The leaves were fixed in FAA, embedded in paraffin and stained in astra blue and basic fuchsin. The species is a liana with 2 to 5 m high, peninérvea leaf of membranous consistency with variable leaf size, cylindrical petiole and petiole, presenting in its epidermis heterodimencional cells with wavy walls, striated cuticle, with the presence of stomas in both faces, in which the adaxial face its presence is very rare, these stomas are the anomocytic, paracytic type, also have filiform and glandular tectors trichomes. The reticulate veins are brochidrodomas and the secondary ones are alternately arranged in relation to the main vein. With these preliminary results it can already be concluded that the undulations of the epidermal cell walls are indicators of shaded environment and the secretory trichomes are responsible for the characteristic aroma of garlic.