ABSTRACT

The Menispermaceae family of flowering plants comprises of about 71 genera and 450 species. Menispermaceae are mostly climbing plants and the majority of species can be found in countries with a tropical climate. The family contains a number of plants with scientifically recognized important pharmacological activities. The present work aimed at leaf morphology, preliminary phytochemical screening of four medicinally important species of the family Menispermaceae using two solvent systems (chloroform and ethanol) and also to evaluate physico-chemical characterisation of these extracts. The selected species include Anamirta cocculus (L) Wight & Arn., Cissampelos pareira L. Var. hirsuta (Buch.-Ham. ex DC.) Forman, Pachygone ovata (Poiret) J. D. Hook. & Thompson and Diploclisia glaucescens (BI.) Diels. The powdered leaves were extracted with two solvents with Soxhlet apparatus and the extracts were subjected to preliminary phytochemical screening by standard laboratory tests. Results showed that the chloroform leaf extracts show more positive result than that of ethanolic extracts. The extractive value (yield percentage) in two solvent system showed that ethanolic extract has the maximum yield percentage than that of chloroform extract. The study showed that Chloroform and Ethanol leaf extracts of selected plants contain medicinally improved bioactive compounds and also justifies the use of these plants as traditional medicines and for developing pharmaceutical drugs. Keywords: Morhological, Phytochemical, Physico-chemical, medicinal plants, Anamirta cocculus , Cissampelos pareira var. hirsuta, Pachygone ovata
Publication date: 01/11/2020

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2020/9.11.5257