Microscopic study of Baikal skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi) herb
The anatomic study of the top of a Baikal skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi) identified the following diagnostic signs: the leaf is a stomatal apparatus of the diacytic type with geniculate and simple multicellular hairs with the extended base and the pointed end, essential oil glandules with 6-8 nephrocytes; the flower presents a cephalanthium and papillate emergences of 2 types: smooth and those with a plicate cuticle; the middle part of epidermis of the corona labium comprises straight non-anfractuose cells; the stem is a conducting system of the fascicular type; the number of the major conducting bundles is equal to four; simple hairs.