Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

S. S. Dan ¹, N. R. Mondal ¹, Sipra Dan ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta, IN

Abstract

This is a report of preliminary screening of 120 samples representing 103 different species, wherein 27, 14, 85, 30 and 45 samples gave positive tests for alkaloids, saponins, steroid/triterpenoids, coumarins and flavonoids respectively. Only Solidago canadensis Linn, responded to Legal test and Cassia fistula Linn, contain anthraquinone derivative.

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