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Studies on Indonesian medicinal plants VI further alkaloids from Fibraurea chloroleuca
J Siwon1, R Verpoorte, A B Svendsen
1Department of Pharmacognosy, State University of Leiden, Gorlaeus Laboratories, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Planta Medica
|January 1, 1981
Abstract:
From the stem and root bark of Fibraurea chloroleuca Miers the alkaloids magnoflorine, pseudocolumbamine, dehydrocorydalmine and palmatrubine were isolated and identified by their spectral data. By means of TLC the alkaloids berberine and berberrubine were found to be present in minute amounts.
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