Tricolporate pollen of caesalpiniaceae medicinal plants at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy botanical garden in Cyberabad, Telangana

Abstract

This paper presents the study of a tricolporate pollen morphology of 08 Caesalpiniaceae medicinal plant taxa viz. Bauhinia purpurea L., Caesalpinia pulcherrima( L.) SW.,Cassia fistula L., Delonix regia (Hook.) Raf., Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) K.Heyne., Senna auriculata L., S. sophera (L.), Roxb. and Tamarindus indica L. The flower buds of these plants were collected from blocked category of Cyberabad area i.e. Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Botanical Garden.  By using Erdtman’s (1960) acetolysis technique, the collected flower buds were processed. The result of the study showed that Caesalpiniaceae tricolporate pollen grains have diversity in their pollen morphological characters like Polarity, Symmetry, Shape, Aperture and Sporoderm. The observations of this study will be useful for authentic identification of the taxa of Caesalpiniaceae.