Phytochemical and Chromosome study of Gloriosa superba L. (Liliaceae)

Gloriosa superba L. is important medicinal plant species containing as well as having some ornamentals and horticulture values.The plant was under threatened category due to its impulsive harvesting from wild as it widely used by medicinal industries for its colchicine content.It is available during West Bengal with high variability in morphological and colchicine content.The present study on Gloriosa superba L. agreements with detailed comparative study of somatic chromosome of six population of West Bengal.In view of this species as well as submission of cytological races have been already experimental in this species and a detailed karyotype analysis which were found to be diploid in all the inhabitants.The present investigation shown that the 2n= 24 chromosomes are in depth of this species.The karyomorphological variations in different population may be due to the minute structural changes of chromosomes.