PHYTOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON ASTER SQUAMATUS L. PART III: CONSTITUENTS OF THE LEAVES

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

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

Abstract

From the air- dried powdered leaves of Aster squamatus L., we isolated and identified quercetin-3-methyl ether, quercetin-4'-methyl-ether, Kaempferol, quercetin, quercetin-3-O- diarabinoside, quercetin-3-methyl ether-4'-O- dirhamnoside, a saturated hydrocarbon, a- and b- amyrin, mixture of stigmasterol, campesterol, and b-sitosterol, sitosterol-3-0-xyloside, in addition to a triterpene alcohol and a triterpene acetate.