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The comprehend assess the pharmacognostic characteristics of an important ethnomedicinal plant, O. quadripartita Salz. ex Decne. The pharmacognostic evaluation was executein terms of taxonomic, macroscopic, microscopic, fluorescence analysis, and phytochemical analysis. The Osyaris members heartwood majorly used to make furniture and perfumes. The Osyris plant members are known for fragrance and volatile oil constituents. The microscopic features of stem bark were observed as cork, cortex, phloem fibers, phloem medullary rays, and scleridesin the transverse section (T.S.) and longitudinal section (L.S.). The microscopy of stem bark powder observed the presence of cortex cells, sieve tubes, calcium oxalate crystals, and lignified fibers. The initial screening of phytochemical constituents of stem bark crude plant extracts indicate the presence of carbohydrates, proteins, alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, saponins, tannins & phenolic in different polar and non-polar solvent systems such as petroleum ether, chloroform, acetone, methanol, and water. Many pharmacognostic characters observed during the study, it's help in the standardization of O. quadripartite.

Durgawadi plateau situated in the Northern Western Ghats of Junnar tehsil, Pune district (Maharashtra state) India comes under reserved biodiversity evergreen forest type. The continuous repetitive investigation of anther type special based on the mode of anther dehiscence considers 220 dicotyledonsyledon angiosperms species belonging to 161 genera of 66 plant families. The two main types of anther dehiscence were observed longitudinal and poricidal. Among these subtypes of longitudinal dehiscence, the extrorse dehiscence type is most commonly found in 25 families. Another sub-type of longitudinal dehiscences such as introrse dehiscence, latrorse dehiscence, and poricidal dehiscence types were found in 24, 18 & 1 families accordingly. Anther longitudinal dehiscence in introrse type is most commonly observed in 98 species, followed by extrorse, latrorse, and poricidal types were found in 70, 62, and 9 taxa respectively.

Eight species of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) were morphometrically studied upon their leaf characters, with the help of taxonomical analysis to solve the relationship between these species. On the basis of taxonomical component analysis, among the studied species, it has been disclosed that the numerical characters such as leaf length, petiole length, leaf breadth and lamina length are positively correlated to resolved taxonomical relation of different species of the same genus. Contribute important role in bringing together the species within a genus using principal component analysis results of five quantitative characters based on similarity matrix reveals significantly the correlation between leaf length to leaf breadth, leaf base nerve number, and the ratio of leaf lamina length to petiole length significantly separates the species from each other. Morphometric characters provided justification for the existing classification of the Ipomoea genus. It also indicates the component matrix after extraction of the characters that contributed strongly in similarity between the selected Ipomoea species. Three characters which include Leaf length, leaf breadth, and the ratio of leaf length to leaf breadth contributed significantly to the delimitation of the species of Ipomoea studied. Morphometric analysis of eight species of Ipomoea quamoclit L.; Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.; Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet; Ipomoea hederacea Jacq.; Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker Gawl.; Ipomoea cordatotriloba Dennst.; Ipomoea lacunosa L. and Ipomoea hederifolia L. Using five different quantitative characters provided justification for the existing classification of the Ipomoea genus. This characters which, contributed significantly to the delimitation of the species of Ipomoea studied. We recommend an application of this method in an elaborate taxonomic study of the genus Ipomoea in the future study.