Abstract
Anchusa italica Rezet. is an important medicinal plant belonging to the Boraginaceae Family. It is an herbaceous, perennial and monocarp plant. Flowers appear only once during the life cycle of the plant. Over ground is of medicinal properties. This plant and its products are used in heart strengthening, and eliminating headache and cold. In the research, Anchusa italica biomass was studied in under-over ground plant biomass; vegetal sample was collected from the study area with random plot 1 m*m statistical plant during one of the vegetative seasons in this research. Results of this research showed that plant average root dept is about 13.50 cm, average stem height is about 33 cm and average over ground of plant biomass is about 0.76 g/m2 and average over ground of plant biomass is about 3.24 g/m2. Key words: Anchusa italica, over ground biomass, medicinal, soil.
Highlights
Anchusa, an important genus of family Boraginaceae, it is distributed in the mountains of tropical Asia and Africa
The results showed that in studying area stem height A. italica was unsteady from 9 to 23 mm, that in average it is about 16 mm and the maximum, minimum and medium over ground of biomass in studying area were 4.21, 0.38, 0.28 g/m2, respectively
The results showed that A. italica depth is 10 cm and stem height is 16 cm
Summary
An important genus of family Boraginaceae, it is distributed in the mountains of tropical Asia and Africa. About 5 species of Anchusa occur in Iran Region (Mozaffarian, 2007). The species is useful in the treatment of headache and cold (Hadjiakhoondi and Baligh, 2002, 2002). The objective of the study was to quantify over-under ground biomass of downy (Anchusa italica Roth.). Since measuring root biomass is laborious, few data on this variable are available. Very few studies have used both qualitative and quantitative attributes for assessment of species status (Samant et al, 1996a; Airi et al, 1997, 2000; Bhatt et al, 2005, 2006). In India, Puri et al (1994) studied the distribution of roots in stands of Populus deltoides
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