QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF FLAVONOIDS PRESENT IN LIMONIUM SINUATUM MILL

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt

Abstract

A chromatospectrophotometric method was carried out for quantitative estimation of flavonoids in the flowers and leaves of Limonium sinuatum Mill and proved that flowers contain the highest percentage of flavonoids. The percentage of flavonoids (gm %) in flowers and leaves was as follows respectively: total aglycones (calculated as apigenin), (0.09, 0.24); apigenin, (0.048, 0.17); luteotin (0.034, 0.02); total glycosides (calculated as gossypin), (2.43, 0.44); gossypin (0.96, 0.14); 8-hydroxykaempferol-8-o-glucoside (1.01, 0.03).