Anatomical Study of Some Characters in Certain Species of Genus Jasminum L. Growing in Iraq

Anatomic study of the epidermis types of leaves have shown that jasmine epidermis cells showed a difference between the Adaxial and Abaxial of the leaves, the epidermal cells were characterized in both surfaces a Straight shape this specieswere J. grandiflorum and J. sambac and J. mesnyi and Undulate in J. officinals also that all species under study not containing any shape of crystal in epidermis cells except epidermis of the species J. sambac, contain prismatic crystal and druces crystal. The stomata characterized in the species under study being from the style Anomocytic type and Hypostomatic leaf thats means the stomata present on the Adaxial surface only. The current study shown also that the indumentum in the species belonging to the genus Jasmine consists of glandular and aglandular trichomes, the glandular trichomesexist in the species J. mesnyiandJ. sambac and the aglandulartrichomes stationed on the edges and surface of the leaf in the species J. grandiflorum, J. officinals and J. mesnyi.