Medicinal herbal stuff of the Krasnoyarsk forest steppe and its identification on the basis of the leaf epidermal cell anatomical characteristics

16 plant species growing in the Krasnoyarsk forest steppe were studied in order to form the electronic database of the leaf epidermis images for identification the medicinal herbal stuff authenticity. It was shown that plants of different species of the same family differ according to the epidermal cell form and the stomata number per area unit.