Chlorophytum inornatum
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Chlorophytum inornatum, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. Volume 27, 1807, Plate 1071 | |
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Species: | C. inornatum
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Chlorophytum inornatum Ker Gawl. 1807
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Chlorophytum inornatum is a flowering plant species in the genus Chlorophytum. It is the type species of its genus.
3-(4'-Methoxybenzyl)-7,8-methylenedioxy-chroman-4-one, a homoisoflavanone with antimycobacterial activity, can be isolated from C. inornatum.[1][2]
References
- ^ Synthesis of (+/-) homoisoflavanone and corresponding homoisoflavane. Zhang L, Zhang WG, Kang J, Bao K, Dai Y and Yao XS, Journal of Asian natural products research, volume 10, issues 9-10, pages 909-13, PMID 19003606
- ^ Phytochemistry and antimycobacterial activity of Chlorophytum inornatum. Gemma O’Donnell, Franz Bucar and Simon Gibbons, Phytochemistry, January 2006, Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 178–182, doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2005.10.023, PMID 16343565
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