Abstract

• Myanmar traditional medicine is practically and widely well accepted to many local people. Dolichandrone spathacea (L.f.) K. Schum. was utilized effectively for hepatitis and liver cancer. As such morphological and histological studies of this plant were investigated to certain it identification. The specimen was collected from Hta Ma Kan village, Aung Lan Township, Magway Region in july, 2018. The collected plant was identified according to standard procedures. The morphological and histological studies were also carried out by using available literatures at Department of Botany, West Yangon University. Dolichandrone spathacea (L.f.) K. Schum., locally known as Tha-kut belongs to the family Bignoniaceae. In Morphological study, this plant was a tree with unipinnately compound leaves, exstipulate. Inflorescences were terminal, corymbose. Flowers were white, fragrant. The fruits were capsule. Seeds were rectangular, membranous winged testa, nonendospermic. In histological study, epidermal cells of both surfaces were polygonal in shape with slightly wavy anticlinal walls. Stomata were found only on lower surface and anisocytic type. Calcium oxalate crystals were present in leaves. Simple unicellular trichomes and glandular peltate trichomes were present on the surfaces of leaves and stems. The powdered samples have been investigated and presented as diagnostic characters for the standardization of powdered drugs.