Verbenaceae - Science topic

Preparations from the aerial parts of the true aloe Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f. (Xanthorrhoeaceae), the wild sage Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae), and the bitter melon Momordica charantia L. (Cucurbitaceae); the leaves of the Chinese cinnamon Cinnamomum cassia (Nees & T. Nees) Farw (Lauraceae); the bark and young leaves of the guava Psidium guajava L. (...

Introduction There are few studies reporting the antifungal activities of Lippia alba extracts. Methods A broth microdilution assay was used to evaluate the antifungal effects of Lippia alba extracts against seven yeast species of Candida and Cryptococcus. The butanol fraction was investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Results The...

Chemical investigation of the methanol extract of the leaves of Tectona grandis led to the isolation of one new anthraquinone derivative, grandiquinone A (3-acetoxy-8-hydroxy-2-methylanthraquinone) (1), along with nine known compounds: 5,8-dihydroxy-2-methylanthraquinone (2), hydroxysesamone (3), 3-hydroxy-2-methylanthraquinone (4), quinizarine (5)...

Abstract— Species belonging to the genera Aloysia and Acantholippia are difficult to place within Lantaneae due to gene tree incongruence and limited sampling in previous studies. We use an expanded sample of both genera, and DNA sequence data from six loci, to reveal that Aloysia and Acantholippia species occur in five consistently inferred, well-...

Objective: Premna integrifolia Linn (Family: Verbenaceae) synonym of Premna serratifolia has tremendous medicinal value. Preliminary pharmacological studies were performed on the methanolic extract of Premna integrifolia (MEPI) bark to investigate neuropharmacological, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory activities. Materials and methods: Neurophar...

To pre-screen the ex-vivo wound healing activity of ethyl acetate extract of the leaves of Tectona grandis Linn. Family Verbenaceae along with phytochemical, EDS, HPTLC analysis to provide pharmacological validation to the traditional claim for this activity of Tectona grandis leaves. Total phenolic content by UV spectral methods and apigenin by HP...

Aim: Herbal medicine is widely practiced throughout the world from time im-memorable. The aim of the present study is to document available medicinal plants, methods of preparation and major uses in the villages of Thenpuranadu and Pachamalai; a part of Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India. Methods: Ethno medicinal survey was conducted among the vill...

Objectives: To study the bioactivity potential and phytochemistry of few of the aromatic plants, i.e. Cinnamomum verum of Lauraceae, Chrysanthemum sp. of Asteraceae, Lantana camara of Verbenaceae and Eucalyptus citriodora and Callistemon citrinus of the family Myrtaceae, from Yelagiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India. Methods: The Aqueous ethanol (3:1 ra...

Objectives: To study the bioactivity potential and phytochemistry of few of the aromatic plants, i.e. Cinnamomum verum of Lauraceae, Chrysanthemum sp. of Asteraceae, Lantana camara of Verbenaceae and Eucalyptus citriodora and Callistemon citrinus of the family Myrtaceae, from Yelagiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India. Methods: The Aqueous ethanol (3:1 ra...

Objectives: To study the bioactivity potential and phytochemistry of few of the aromatic plants, i.e. Cinnamomum verum of Lauraceae, Chrysanthemum sp. of Asteraceae, Lantana camara of Verbenaceae and Eucalyptus citriodora and Callistemon citrinus of the family Myrtaceae, from Yelagiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India. Methods: The Aqueous ethanol (3:1 ra...

Abstract: The main goal of this study was to determine the acute toxicity and irritancy of the leaf of essential oil of Vitex simplicifolia Oliv. (Verbenaceae) growing in Burkina Faso and whose therapeutic use is multiple. The acute toxicity of the essential oil was determined by Litchfield method. Skin and eye irritancy was performed by Draize met...

Hierobotana is a monotypic genus that belongs to tribe Verbeneae and is endemic to Ecuador. It is morphologically distinct from the other genera of Verbeneae in having only two functional stamens instead of four, as occur in most Verbenaceae. In the present work the relationship between Hierobotana and the other genera of Verbeneae is examined for...

This study aimed to evaluate the chemical composition of the essential oils from three genotypes of Lippia gracilis Schauer (Verbenaceae) and investigate the cytotoxic activities of these oils. Essential oils were extracted from the leaves using a Clevenger-type apparatus, and chemical analysis was performed using a gas chromatograph coupled to a m...

This paper evaluates the hepatoprotective activity of the aqueous alcoholic (60%) extract of the aerial parts of Callicarpa macrophylla (Verbenaceae) against Paracetamol and carbon tetrachloride induced hepatotoxicity. The powder of the aerial parts was extracted with aqueous alcoholic (60%) and the resultant extract was subjected for phytochemical...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of essential oils derived from Hyptis marrubioides, Aloysia gratissima and Cordia verbenacea for controlling Asian soybean rust. The inhibitory activities of the essential oils (applied in a concentration range of 0.05 - 2%) on the germination of Phakopsora pachyrhizi urediniospores were investiga...

This study aimed to establish and propagate in vitro plants of Bouchea fluminensis, a medicinal species known in Brazil as gervao-falso ("false verbena"), evaluating the influences of different growth regulators on in vitro multiplication and rooting stages, as well as examining ex vitro acclimatization of rooted plants. Explants were established o...

Introduction: There are few studies reporting the antifungal activities of Lippia alba extracts. Methods: A broth microdilution assay was used to evaluate the antifungal effects of Lippia alba extracts against seven yeast species of Candida and Cryptococcus. The butanol fraction was investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Results:...

Lippia origanoides Kunth. Verbenaceae, is of great importance in the Brazilian traditional medicine. Because of it, this work had the purpose to contribute to the ethnopharmacological knowledge of L. origanoides through an ethnobotanical survey conducted within quilombola (maroon) communities of Oriximiná, Pará, Brazil. Among 254 plants cited in th...

Background Algesia and inflammation are related with several pathological conditions. It is known that many drugs available for the treatment of these problems cause unwanted side effects. This study was aimed at evaluating acute toxicity and anti-inflammatory activity of Lampaya medicinalis Phil. (Verbenaceae) widely used in the folk medicine of N...

In the present work a revision of tribe Verbeneae for Peru is presented, descriptions and illustrations for each taxa are presented. In this country this tribe is represented by 16 taxa: four Glandularia species, five Junellia species, one Mulguraea species and four Verbena species and two varieties; six of these taxa are endemic to Peru. Three new...

The propagation of plants by vegetative means is Citharexylum quadrangulare fell down in the Botanical practised in the field of forestry and horticulture to Garden of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. Seeds obtain plants of desirable genetic constitution, for were not available and there was no report of vegetative breeding programmes to improv...

Vitex negundo L. belongs to family Verbenaceae is a hardy plant, flourishing1 mainly in the Indian subcontinent. All parts of the plant, from root to fruit, possess a multitude of phytochemical secondary metabolites which impart an unprecedented variety of medicinal uses to the plant. In the present study, the dried leaves of the Vitex negundo were...

Zabrotes subfasciatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), is one of the most destructive species with greater abundance and distribution in stored beans Phaseolus vulgaris L., causing great economic losses in Sonora, Mexico. Control of this pest has been based mainly on the use of broad-spectrum synthetic insecticides. Their intensive application has caused i...

Background: Lemon verbena (Lippia citriodora H.B.K.) is an aromatic and medicinal plant of family Verbenaceae, which cultivated in North region of Iran. Objective: Evaluation of phytochemical characters in Lippia citriodora H.B.K. plantlets affected by propagation methods (micro-propagation and stem cutting) cultivated in different soil type (peat...

A facile one-step green synthesis of stable gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) has been described using chloroauric acid (HAuCl4) and the leaf extract of Lantana camara Linn (Verbenaceae family) at room temperature. The leaf extract enriched in various types of plant secondary metabolites is highly efficient for the reduction of chloroaurate ions into meta...

For generating a strategy of quantitative and qualitative productions of invasive Lippia multiflora, influence of soil pH and the contents of organic carbon (C), total nitrogen (Nt), total (Pt) and available (Pa) phosphorus were explored via dominant-abundance (DAI) and aggregation (AI) index of the species as well as the leave extractable essentia...

A bioassay-guided fractionation and chemical investigation of the Gmelina arborea leaves (Verbenaceae) resulted in the isolation and characterization of six known flavonoids (1, 3-7) along with new flavone glycoside (2), identified as; luteolin (1), luteolin-4'-O- -D-4C -galactoside (2), kaempferol (3), quercetin - 1 3 - O - - D - 4C -glucopyranosi...

The species Lippia sidoides Cham. (Verbenaceae) is utilized in popular medicine as a local antiseptic on the skin and mucosal tissues. Enterococcus faecalis is the bacterium isolated from root canals of teeth with persistent periapical lesions and has the ability to form biofilm, where it is responsible for the failure of endodontic treatments. Ess...

Abstract: Premna integrifolia Linn (Family: Verbenaceae) synonyms of Premna serratifolia has tremendous medicinal value. The methanolic extract of Premna integrifolia (MEPI) bark was subjected to investigate its antidiabetic activity along with its in vitro antioxidant activity. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), normoglycemic test and alloxan ind...

As a spice and medicinal plant, Aloysia citriodora Palau (Family, Verbenaceae) is applied in nutritional and pharmacological purposes. According to the findings, many parameters relating to growth location and cultivation conditions, may affect on the secondary metabolites of the herb and result in different percentage of concerned constituents. Ac...

We document here for the first time ultrastructural details of the cellular interaction of Asteridiella callista and its host Stachytarpheta mutabilis var. violacea from Costa Rica. A. callista attaches to the host with appressoria, invades the epidermal cell wall and forms an apoplastic complex cisternal net, presumably for nutrient uptake from it...

Plants play a major role in all the traditional system of medicine. Plants contain the rich source of natural products like vitamins, minerals and other immune-modulators. Most of which have been used for human welfare specially to cure disease caused by pathogenic microorganisms. The present study was conducted to determine the antimicrobial activ...

Aims: The leaves of Gmelina arborea (ROXB.) (Family Verbenaceae) are widely used in the folklore to treat various types of diseases. In this study, the antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of different methanolic extracts and the derived subfractions of 90% methanolic extract of this plant were evaluated. Methodology: The antioxidant activity was c...

Sixty Brazilian honey samples were analysed for their total phenolic content with the Folin-Denis reagent, total flavonoid content by aluminium chloride method, and antioxidant activity by reaction with 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical. Colour was also classified according to visual analysis and Pfund scale. Linear relationships were observed...

Lippia integrifolia“incayuyo” es un arbusto aromático y medicinal de interés económico cuya distribución abarca desde Bolivia hasta el noroeste y centro de Argentina. Presenta una amplia variabilidad intraespecífica, la cual podría ser el resultado de la interacción con el ambiente y/o estar determinada genéticamente. Debido a esta variabilidad, es...

The objective of this work is to examine the effect of industrialization on the insects and arachmids of several members belonging to six arthropod orders, viz., Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Araneae and their host plant relationship in the Falta export processing zone (FEPZ) and in non-industrial area. Fifteen stu...

The floristic study of Asshab Baba graveyard District Peshawar was conducted during March-June, 2013 with the aim to identify the conserve plant species. A total of 66 plant species were identified belonging to monocotyledons and dicotyledons. Three families were monocots in which Poaceae was dominant family with 12 species, followed by Cyperaceae...

Tectona grandis Linn belongs to the family Verbenaceae. The plants Tectona grandis Linn Commonly known as ‘Teak’ is a large to very large deciduous tree, 20-35 m in height with light brown bark. Present study deals with the phytochemical properties which have been carried out on the leaves of Tectona grandis Linn using Acetone, Chloroform, Methanol...

The present study was aimed to prepared and characterize gel formulations of alcoholic extract of Clerodendrum serratum (Verbenaceae) using different polymers as gelling agents in two concentrations and also to evaluate anti-inflammatory activity of gel. Gelling agents used in this study, such as carbopol 934, HPMC K 100 M and Xanthan gum were sele...

Over the past decade, researchers and food manufacturers have significantly focused attention on polyphenols. The key reason for this interest is the recognition of the antioxidant properties of these substances, their great abundance in our diet and the probable role in preventing diseases associated with oxidative stress. The great class of polyp...

Medicinal plants are important constituents of indigenous traditional medicinal system in India. Various species of Lantana have been traditionally used as a medicinal herb to treat various ailments like tetanus, rheumatism, malaria, cough, fevers, cold, rheumatisms and asthma. In this study focus has been made on TLC profiling and evaluation of an...

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a cinética de secagem das folhas de erva baleeira (Cordia verbenacea DC.) bem como ajustar diferentes modelos matemáticos aos valores experimentais de razão de umidade. As folhas de erva baleeira foram colhidas com teor de água inicial de 75% b.u., sendo submetidas à secagem sob condições controladas de t...

Vitex negundo belongs to family Verbenaceae and grows as small tree with thin grey bark. The plant is widely distributed and also has pharmacological actions against wide spectrum of diseases in traditional system of medicines. All parts of the plant especially its leaves contain numbers of secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, phenols, flavonoi...

Interaction among species, like ants and plants through extrafloral nectaries (EFN), are important components of ecological communities’ evolution. However, the effect of human disturbance on such specific interactions and its ecological consequences is poorly understood. This study evaluated the outcomes of mutualism between ants and the EFN-beari...

Though woods remain the principal nest service provider to Apis mellifera Scutellata in Nigeria, a technical information/knowledge gap on the wood species preferred by the bees still remains. Therefore, investigation was carried out on the wood species cavities colonized by honeybees in Nigeria for a period of four years. 24 wood species belonging...

Gmelina asiatica Linn, (syn. Gmelina parvifolia) (Family, Verbenaceae) is commonly known as 'Asian Bush beech' and large straggling shrub found in South India. The plant has been used in gonorrhea, catarrh of the bladder, rheumatism. A study on Gmelina asiatica stem samples extracted the air-dried stem powder with different solvents such as Hexan...

Vitex negundo Linn. (VN), belonging to family Verbenaceae, is an aromatic shrub distributed throughout India. In the ayurvedic system of medicine it is used as a drug of choice to manage pain, inflammation and other related diseases. It contains many polyphenolic compounds, terpenoids, glycosidic iridoids and alkaloids. V. negundo was investigated...

Gmelina arborea Roxb. (Verbenaceae) is the authentic botanical entity correlated to Gambhari as per the ayurvedic pharmacopoeia of India. Root of Gambhari, is one of the ten ingredients of Dasamula, an important formulation in ayurveda. The increasing annual demand of >1000 MT of the raw drug and the decline in the availability of the authentic spe...

This paper is based on data recorded from various literatures pertaining to ethnophytomedicinal recipes used against diabetes in South East Asia (India, Pakistan and Srilanka). Traditional plant treatments have been used throughout the world for the therapy of diabetes mellitus. In total 419 useful phytorecipes of 270 plant species belonging to...

Objective: Plant-derived cytotoxic constituents and polyphenolic compounds have played an important role in the development of clinically useful anticancer agents. In this context, we have selected six Indian medicinal plants based on the literature claims and an attempt was made to evaluate the cytotoxic potential and total phenolic content (TPC)...

Background: Oxidative damage as a result of an increase in the free radical load and/or decrease in the efficiency of the antioxidant systems has been implicated in many human diseases. Premna integrifolia (Verbenaceae) is an important woody, medicinal plant and has a prominent place in Ayurvedha, Siddha and Unani system of medicines. Traditionally...

In continuation of our study for plant origin substances with insecticidal effects, we have screened out root, leaf and stem of C. viscosum against red flour beetle T. castaneum, extracted into ethyl alcohol, ethyl acetate and chloroform. A correlation was found between the insecticidal and repellent activity observed by residual film assay techniq...

Homegardens in the villages of Honnavar taluk is an integrated production system and a stable ecosystem that maintains the diversity of life as well as biological wealth. Honnavar is one of the Coastal Taluks of Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka state. The present study was carried out in 10 villages of Honnavar taluk namely Karki, Haladipur, Ma...

Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is an insect pest of stored grain, very destructive and highly resistant to synthetic pesticides. Therefore, the chemical control of this pest is performed with high concentrations of insecticides which increase environmental contamination as well as the risks to human health. Current trends in integr...

Vitex negundo L. (Verbenaceae) fruits are reported to possess a wide range of therapeutic properties. The present work is an attempt to evaluate the impact of regional variation on the content of β-sitosterol in V. negundo fruits using validated HPTLC method. Chromatographic separation was achieved on TLC plate pre-coated with silica gel 60 F 254 u...

Phenolic secondary metabolites are recognized as excellent antioxidants and are subject of numerous scientific studies. The present study was aimed firstly, to quantify the phenolic constituents contained in the hydroacetonic crude extract obtained from Gmelina arborea leaves by UPLC-MS/MS and secondly, to investigate in vitro its anticancer potent...

Phyla dulcis (Trevir.) Moldenke, comúnmente conocido como orozus, es una planta de la familia Verbenaceae ampliamente distribuida en el territorio guatemalteco. Además de su propiedad edulcorante, posee diversos usos medicinales, destacándose su propiedad bactericida, antiespasmódica y antiinflamatoria que se usa para tratar enfermedades respirator...

Crotalaria pumila belongs to family Febaceae while Lantana camara, belongs to Verbenaceae. The extracts were prepared by Soxhlet extraction method using ethanol as a solvent. The -carotene bleaching assay and 1,1-Diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging method were used to determine antioxidant properties of plants by measuring decrease in...

Se presenta una revisión taxonómica y nomenclatural del género Glandularia para Chile. El género está representado por 12 especies y una variedad, ocho de estos taxones son endémicos de Chile. Las especies se distribuyen desde la zona más septentrional del territorio, región de Arica y Parinacota, hasta la región de Los Lagos, al sur. Sin embargo l...

Vitex negundoLinn. (Verbenaceae) is a hardy plant, which has enormous traditional uses against various diseases, flourishing mainly in the Indian subcontinent and is commonly used herb in ayurvedic medicine. The present review aims to compile information on its,medicinal values phytochemical and pharmacological activities,traditional uses and sci...

Information was obtained over two-years, in randomly-selected villages across six states viz., Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Enugu and Rivers in southeast Nigeria, from key informants (herbalists) on plant species used as repellents against malaria vectors. Twenty-four species in 16 families were identified. The Verbenaceae yielded 5 speci...

Premna scandens Roxb., a scandent shrub in Verbenaceae, is reported for the first time for South India from Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary of the southern Western Ghats. A brief description along with colour plate of the species is provided.

Ten compounds including two phenolic acids and eight flavonoids were isolated from n-butanol and ethyl acetate fractions of Tectona grandis leaves part (Family Verbenaceae). All of the compounds were isolated and purified via different column chromatography. Their structures were elucidated via UV, IR and NMR spectral techniques as well as (Co-PC,...

Los productos que emplea la cocina tradicional andina para saborizar y condimentar sus platos se comercializan en mercados y ferias regionales, llegando en ocasiones a las herboristerías. Con el propósito de conocer la calidad botánica de estos productos de origen andino que se comercializan en la ciudad de S. S. de Jujuy y alrededores se aborda su...

S u m m a r y β-sitosterol and two triterpenoids: ursolic acid acetate and platanic acid have been isolated from ethanolic extract of Vitex trifola leaves. β-sitosterol was previously isolated from the leaves, stem and seeds of Vitex trifolia. Ursolic acid acetate has been isolated for the first time in this plant species. Platanic acid has been re...

Vegetative development, essential oil yield and composition of nine genetic materials of Lippia alba, linalool chemotype, were compared in the environmental conditions of Southern Brazil. Plants were propagated by stem cuttings and transferred to field in a completely randomized design with four replications and six plants each. The vegetative grow...

The teak (Tectona grandis L.f), a member of the Verbenaceae family is a diploid species (2n=36). It is native to the tropical deciduous forests of India, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. Snuffed for its aesthetic physical properties and its qualities, teak is the first species of afforestation in Côte d'Ivoire. Because of its uncontrolled exploitation,...

Chemical profile of the hydrodistilled volatile oil from the aerial parts of lemon verbena, Aloysia citriodora Paláu, grown in Jordan was analyzed by means of GC and GC-MS. The melissa-odored plant was found rich in the oil with an average yield of 0.5 % (v/w) of dried material. The oil was characterized by a high content of monoterpenes (69.2 %) a...

Cell redifferentiation, division, and elongation are recurrent processes, which occur during gall development, and are dependent on the cellulose microfibrils reorientation. We hypothesized that changes in the microfibrils orientation from non-galled tissues to galled ones occur and determine the final gall shape. This determination is caused by a...

Re proposal of underscrubbing/removing weeds and dead plant material from a 6 m m wide x 80 m long area of low conservation value bushland adjacent to proposed building platform at 75 Roberts Road, Werombi (see Figs. 1-5). During the afternoon of 28 October 2013 I made a detailed inspection of an area measuring 980 m x 10 metres adjacent to a propo...

Natural products from plants can alter the effect of antibiotics, by increasing or reducing its activity. Lippia sidoides Cham. (Verbenaceae) is a bush found in the Northeastern region of Brazil. In popular medicine, L. sidoides has been used as antiseptic. In this work we report the chemical composition of the essential oil from L. sidoides and to...

Stomatochroon lagerheimii is a rare endobiotic green alga that lives in the stomatal chambers of the leaves from tropical vascular plants. The only report, to date, on this species was from Sumatra, Indonesia, by Palm in 1934. For this study, specimens were collected from a tropical rain forest in Yunan, south west China, and each section of the th...

A study of the vegetation in a 71,42 ha fragment of Caatinga in Poço Verde, state of Sergipe, was carried out, and the occurrence of 170 species, 129 genera and 46 botanical families was recorded. Fabaceae (25 spp.); Euphorbiaceae (16 spp.); Solanaceae (nine spp.); Poaceae (eight spp.); Malvaceae (seven spp.); and Apocynaceae, Asteraceae, Convolvul...

(Frutificação e ecologia da germinação de Citharexylum myrianthumCham [Verbenaceae]). Citharexylum myrianthumCham (tarumã) é uma espécie arbórea que ocorre abundantemente na mata ciliar e é utilizada em programas de recuperação de áreas degradadas, especialmente em áreas com solos encharcados. Este trabalho teve por objetivos fornecer informações s...

Context: Lampaya medicinalis F. Phil. (Verbenaceae) is a plant that grows in northern of Chile and it is used in ethnomedicine to treat bone pain, as an analgesic, in kidney ailments, disorders of the prostate, liver disease and dyspepsia, although there are few scientific studies about it. Aims: To determine the antioxidant activity of different e...

Thirty-six essential oils from Verbenaceae and Asteraceae family plants along with their major constituents were evaluated to determine cytotoxicity on Jurkat, HeLa, HepG2 and Vero cell lines. The plants were collected in different regions of Colombia, and their essential oils were extracted through microwave-assisted hydrodistillation and then cha...

Invasive species, local plant communities and invaded ecosystems change over space and time. Quantifying this change may lead to a better understanding of the ecology and the effective management of invasive species. We used data on density of the highly invasive shrub Lantana camara (lantana) for the period 1990-2008 from a 50 ha permanent plot in...

Premna esculenta Roxb. (family Verbenaceae) is a shrub used by the ethnic people of Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh for the treatment of hepatocellular jaundice. The present study was done to evaluate the hepatoprotective and the in vivo antioxidant activity of ethanolic extracts of leaves of the plant in carbon tetrachloride-induced liver dam...

Callus cultures of Lantana camara L. (family verbenaceae) were induced from leaf and stem explants on Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with α naphthalene acetic acid (NAA), Indole3-acetic acid (IAA) and 2,4 dichloro-phenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). Callus cultures (4.04 g dry weight) developed from young leaf and shoot tips on medium containing 2...

Objective: Vitex negundo (Chaste Tree; family: Verbenaceae) is widely used as folk medicine for the treatment of many diseases. The methanolic Extract and Solvent-Solvent Partitioning of Vitex negundo bark investigated for its different biological activities. Methods: In-vitro anti-oxidant study was determined using total phenolic compound analys...

Lantana camara L. es nativa del Centro-Sur de América, tóxica para el ganado y una de las especies más invasoras del mundo. La información sobre si biología reproductiva es parcial y contradictoria. A fin de estudiar la biología floral, el síndrome y el sistema reproductivo, se analizaron sus atributos florales (morfología, coloración, fases, aroma...

In spite of the recent studies on the phylogeny of Verbenaceae, the position of the monotypic Verbenoxylum, endemic to the Atlantic rainforest in southeastern Brazil, remains unsolved. Molecular data were here analyzed to infer the phylogenetic placement of this genus; furthermore morphological data was studied in order to examine traits that suppo...

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro antioxidant and anticancer activities of diethyl ether, petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, methanol and water (infusion and decoction) extracts from Vitex agnus-castus L. (Verbenaceae) seeds.Materials and methods: Antioxidant activities of crude extracts from V. agnus-castus L. seeds were eval...

To evaluate the possible antifilarial effect of ethyl acetate extract of Vitex negundo (Verbenaceae) leaves against Setaria cervi filarial parasite in vitro. In vitro screening was done by the method of motility inhibition and MTT reduction assay with concentrations of 0.03 to 1.00 mg/mL for 2 to 24 h incubation periods respectively, for possible a...

Cat's claw creeper, Dolichandra unguis-cati (L.) L.G. Lohman (syn: Macfadyena unguis-cati (L.) A.H. Gentry) (Bignoniaceae), a major environmental weed in Queensland and New South Wales, is a Weed of National Significance and an approved target for biological control. A leaf-mining jewel beetle, Hylaeogena jureceki Obenberger (Coleoptera: Buprestida...

Lippia graveolens (Verbenaceae) is known for the high commercial value of its essential oils (EO), but the photosynthetic response of the plant to environmental variables has been little studied. In order to know the possible relationship between photosynthetic capacity and water status with essential oil content, we measured the water potential (p...

Aloysia polystachya is popularly used to treat various conditions. The aim of the study was to evaluate the chemical composition, some physicochemical properties and in vitro antioxidant activity of an ethanolic extract of the species. Extracts retain a higher content of essences that infusions or decoctions. It was detected five groups of metaboli...

This study examines the extraction and isolation of the Caffeic glycoside ester Compound 1. [mp222-224 0C], C29H26O15, [M]+624.594 (EIMS) from the n-BuoH soluble fraction of the ethanolic extract of S. angustifolia (verbenaceae). It was characterized on the basis of spectral analysis (UV, FTIR, 1and 2D NMR techniques) as –β-(31, 41- dihydroxyphenyl...

Leaf spots caused by phyto-pathogenic fungi, can reduce the production of forage plants. The essential oils of medicinal plants have antimicrobial potential. The objective here was to evaluate the fungotoxicity in vitro of the essential oils of lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf (Poaceae)), citronella (Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle (Poacea...

Laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate leaves extract of Lantana camara (Verbenaceae), Murraya koenigii (Rutaceae), Cassia occidentalis (Fabaceae), Nerium indicum (Rutaceae), Aegel marmelos (Rutaceae), Parthenium hysterophoras (Asteraceae); seed extract of Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae), Cassia occidentalis (Fabaceae) and root extract of Hi...