is widely utilized in folk medicine due to its medicinal properties: antiophidic, anti-diarrheal, antimicrobial, and antiinflammatory in eruptive skin diseases. The whole plant is used in a simple decoction process for intestinal pathologies like diarrhea, dysentery or indigestion, and also for snake bite treatment, eruptions, fever, and photosensitizing effect. 1-3 Furanocoumarins are present in Dorstenia species and due to the increased search for psoralen analogs as photochemotherapeutic agents, Dorstenia species has acquired more interest. 4,5 When whole or relatively whole botanical material is assessed, it is easy to detect the adulteration, however, when powdered materials are assessed, microscopy is one of the primary tools used to detect the presence and identity of any other botanical material. 6 This observational, cross-sectional, descriptive study was performed with the main purpose of establishing morphoanatomical characters and histochemical preliminary data of the vegetative organs and the inflorescences of Dorstenia contrajerva L. and D. contrajerva var. tenuiloba (Blake) Standl. & Steyerm that grows in Guatemala in order to contribute to its quality control and its rationale use, due to the fact that there are no controlled cultures of this species so the raw material came from wild collection. Materials and Methods Plant Material Whole and fresh wild plants of 2 specimens of D.
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