MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION OF Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench ACCESSIONS IN MEDICINAL PLANT AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Variasi morfologi aksesi Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench di Balai Besar Penelitian dan Pengembangan Tanaman Oba
| Main Authors: | Subositi, Dyah, Fauzi, Fauzi |
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| Format: | Article eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kesehatan
, 2011
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http://ejournal.litbang.depkes.go.id/index.php/toi/article/view/6514 |
Daftar Isi:
- Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench is one of the major medicinal herbs that have continued to gain commercial interest worldwide owing to its antiviral, antibacterial and immunostimulatory activities. Medicinal Plant and Traditional Medicine Research and Development Center has been cultivating E. purpurea since 2002. There are morphological variation of E. purpurea found. The objective of this research was to characterize and to determine E. purpurea accessions based on morphological characters. Echinacea purpurea was cultivated in the collection field at 1200 m asl for five months. The observation were done base on morphological characters and continuedwith the selection of E. purpurea that has morphological differences. The results showed that there were ten accessionsof E. purpurea which have specifics morphological characters especially in their inflorescence.AbstrakEchinacea purpurea (L.) Moench merupakan salah satu tumbuhan obat yang penting dan digunakan sebagai antivirus, antibakteri, dan mempunyai aktivitas sebagai imunomudolator. Ekinase telah dibudidayakan diBalai Besar Penelitian dan Pengembangan Tanaman Obat dan Obat Tradisional sejak tahun 2002 serta menunjukkan variasi morfologi selama ditanam. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk karakterisasi dan menentukan aksesi ekinase berdasarkan karakter morfologi. Ekinase ditanam di kebun koleksi pada ketinggian 1.200 mdpl selama lima bulan. Pengamatan dilakukan pada karakter morfologi ekinase dan dilanjutkan dengan seleksi aksesi berdasarkan perbedaan karakter morfologi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat sebanyak 10 aksesi ekinase yang mempunyai perbedaan morfologi terutama pada bagian perbungaan.