<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Siti Maisarah Zakaria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Che Nurul Aini Che Amri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rozilawati Shahari</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethnobotany and Traditional Knowledge of Acanthaceae in Peninsular Malaysia A Review</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acanthaceae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethnobotany</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medicinal plants</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traditional Knowledge</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">September 2020</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1482-1488</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;Plants are considered as a great source of various herbal medicines which are been useful in the treatment of various ailments and diseases. A great contribution of plant-based materials in the pharmaceutical field results in the growing interest on the exploitation of indigenous medicinal plants to make a potential medicine. Several potent plant families are broadly investigated throughout the world including the family of Acanthaceae. Acanthaceae is a large pantropical family of flowering plants comprised of approximately 240 genera and 3250 species in the world. In Peninsular Malaysia, Acanthaceae is one of the families with the largest number of genera and species by which 29 genera and 158 species are respectively recorded. This study thereby deals with the review of information on the ethnobotanical significance of medicinal plants belong to Acanthaceae. This review covers informative data on medicinal plants, its uses and part used based on three tribal groups of indigenous people, Malay villagers and local market traders in Peninsular Malaysia. From the review, Acanthaceae possesses a huge contribution to the ethnobotanical part especially to treat certain diseases. The ethnobotanical data has also served a great contribution to the conservation and sustainability of natural resources. By keeping this point, this present review on ethnobotany and traditional knowledge of Acanthaceae is expected to give benefits and considered a good starting point for future works on the pharmaceutical field, especially for Peninsular Malaysia.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Review Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1482</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Siti Maisarah Zakaria, Che Nurul Aini Che Amri*, Rozilawati Shahari &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;Department of Plant Science, Kulliyyah of Science, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, MALAYSIA.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></auth-address></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francina Cecilia Kalaimaran,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ravindhran Ramalingam</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morphological and Anatomical Investigations of Ecbolium viride (Forssk.) Alston</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acanthaceae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cystolith</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecbolium viride</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leaf microscopy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trichome.</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18th Feb,2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19-27</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ecbolium viride&lt;/em&gt; commonly known as green shrimp is a medicinal plant that grows well in the tropical and temperate regions of the world. International criteria for validation and standardization of herbal product as phytomedicine include the integration of microscopic characteristics of herbal drug to guarantee its authenticity. &lt;strong&gt;Objective:&lt;/strong&gt; The present study was therefore undertaken to evaluate the macroscopic and microscopic characters of the leaves and roots of &lt;em&gt;E. viride&lt;/em&gt;, used in traditional medicine for treating jaundice.&lt;strong&gt; Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; Leaf and root sections of&lt;em&gt; E. viride&lt;/em&gt; were sectioned with rotary microtome and microscopical features were examined using bright field microscope. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; Anatomical characteristics such as crystal distribution in leaf, secondary xylem and vessel elements in root, glandular and non-glandular trichome in powder microscopy are some of the unique features of the plant with taxonomic value. The most distinguishing anatomical feature of this plant is the presence of cystolith calcium carbonate crystals. &lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; Morphological and anatomical parameters presented in this paper would serve as a useful gauge in ensuring quality formulations of drug preparation and in determining the genuineness of the drug.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Key words:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Acanthaceae&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Cystolith&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Ecbolium viride&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Leaf microscopy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Trichome&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Francina Cecilia Kalaimaran and Ravindhran Ramalingam&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;T.A.L. Samy Unit for Plant Tissue Culture and Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai 600 034, India.&lt;/p&gt;</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>