Introduction
Pharmaceutical Botany, definition and objectivests.
Plants as a source of substances of pharmaceutical interest.
Levels of organization: cell, tissue, organ. Flowers, fruits and seeds. Metabolic functions (photosynthesis, cell respiration, transpiration, growth, reproduction) and phyto-hormones.
Reproduction
Sexual and vegetative reproduction.
Life cycles: aplonte, diplonte, aplodiplonte. Reproductions in higher plants (angiospermae).
Systematic and taxonomy
Definition and objectives. The specie. Classification criteria of the vegetable domain. Nomenclature. Morphologic and chemical characters. Biochemistry and secondary plant metabolites.
Tallophyta
Algae: general remarks about structure, ecophysiology and antropopharmaceutical importance. Systematic: Cyanothyta , Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta, Chlorophyta.
Fungi: general remarks, ecophysiology and pharmaceutical importance. Cormophyta
Lichens: general remarks, structures, reproduction and classification. Lichens of commercial and industrial interest.
Bryophyta: general remarks.
Tracheophyta
Pteridophyta: general remarks, structures, reproduction and classification. Samples of pharmaceutical interest.
Spermatophyta
Gymnospermae: general remarks, structures, reproduction and classification. Main samples of pharmaceutical interest.
Angiospermophytae: General remarks, reproduction, floral morphologies, fruit and seeds morphologies.
Magnoliopsida
Characters and monographs of medicinal plants belonging to main families.
Liliopsida
Characters and monographs of medicinal plants belonging to main families.
Herbarium
How to prepare an herbarium. Collection, drying and mounting samples.
