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IJRBAT, Special Issue (2), Vol-V, July 2017 ISSN No. 2347-517X (Online) Preliminary Phytochemical Screening of Cordia Sinensis Lamk. (5ondani) 3othale 3.V. and 4ankhade 0.R. Eepartme nt of Botany, Hovt. Vidarbha Institute of Science O Humanities, Amravati. (M.S.) India , kvkothale/gmail.com, mayurideshmukh3120/gmail.com Abstract The present investigation includes the preliminary phytochemical screening ofmedicinally and economically important plantCordia sinensis Lamk. from the family Boraginaceae. The plant is commonly kno0n as “HondaniA. It is small tree its bark, leaves and fruits are used in Ayurvedic medicine.The 0ood is use d as fuel and in the manufacture of agricultural implements. Bhole plant is used in cut and in ury9 leaves used in treatment of he patitis, fruits are edible. Roots are used against fever, skin diseases leprosy etc. Plant e1tracts 0ere prepared in various organic solvents according to polarity i.e. petroleum e ther, chloroform and 0ater. The phytochemical screening 0as carried out and resulting into the presence of important bioactive compounds responsible for the healing various ailmentsKK 3eywords- Phytochemical, Boraginaceae,bioactive compounds. Introduction elliptic or ob-lanceolate, glabrous 0ith longer The use of plants as medicine has a long hairs in ne rve a1ils and along the midrib. 3lo0er history in the treatme nt of various diseases. The s0eet, scented, caly1 glabrous, fruit yello0 and medicinal plant is de fined as any plant, 0hich one orange mucilaginous and edible seed usually one. or more of its content contain substance that can 3ruit used as snacks, pickled. The bark is used be used for treatment of numerous diseases or as for covering local huts. The fiber obtained from precursors for synthesis of useful drugs. The use the inne r bark is for making ropes, caulking of traditional medicine is 0ide spread throughout boats. the 0orld. The term traditional medicine is 0aterial and methods interchangeably used 0ith herbal medicine and The plant material 0as collected from different natural medicine ( HaCan and Atta, 2005). The regions of Vidarbha. The morphological use of plant to heal or combat illne ss is probably characters regarding the vegetation and floral as old as human kind. 3or thousands of years parts of plants 0ere studied. The plant material people from all corne rs of the globe have used 0as collected for identification and classification he rbs and plants to cure and prevent diseases. standard floras 0e re referred. Benthe m and Many medicinal plants are found to be useful for Hooker system of classification 0ere used (Hooker 0ound healing in the traditional system of 1.76, Cook 1267, Naik 122., Ehore 2002, medicine ( V.%. Verma et al. 2012). N.P.Singh, P. Lakshminara Simhan S, Brorginaceae plants are fre(uently %arthikeyan and P.V. Prasanna 2001). he rbaceous and, the character of the hairs is due Morphology of different parts of plant 0as to cystoliths of silicon dio1ide and calcium observed and mentioned the character from the carbonate . Cordia is flo0e ring plant in family literature several uses of plant parts and che mical Boroginaceae . It is ve ry diverse and medicinally compone nts prese nt in them are also mentioned. and economically important. The uses of Cordia Phytochemistry collection and processing species 0ere highlighted in traditional literature The plant material 0as collected from Vidarbha of Ayrveda materia medica. These plants serve as during Gan to May, 2015 The plant 0ere identified a rich source of phytoconstituents. In traditional and authenticated at department of botany medicine Cordia species has long been used for Hovernment Vidarbha Institute of Scie nces and astringe nt, anti-inflammatory, Humanities, Amravati. The plant material 0as antimalerial, anthelmintic, diuretic, febrifuge, 0ashed and shade dried. It 0as coarsely appetite, cough, suppressant and to treat urinary po0dered 0ith the help of mi1ture grinde r and infections, lungs diseases and leprosy. In the stored in Cip lock polythene bags at 30- 320 C tropics the species cordia sinensis. Lam is small stored in a plastic containe rs, tree gro0ing in India. It is kno0n as gundi, gondi Po0der used for photoche mical studies. Eetection in hindi, gondhani in marathi. The fruit pulp has of bioactive compounds 0as done by standard antidiarrhoeal, astringent and antiseptic prescribed methods (Horborne 12739 Sadashivan activitie s. The plant possesses antidote activity9 and Manikarm 20059 Thimmaiya 1222). the leaf paste is applied on 0ound and useful in Responses to various test 0e re denoted by T, TT, inflammation of legs (B.H. Vaidya 1265). The and TTT indicating 0eak, moderate and strong plant is small, deciduous tree 5-. cm height, response respectively. young stem ridged, and young bark pale, branched glabrous, leaves light green oblong SHRI SHIVAJI SCIENCE COLLEGE, NAGPUR 123 ICRTS-2017 IJRBAT, Special Issue (2), Vol-V, July 2017 ISSN No. 2347-517X (Online) Obser ation ,able - I Photochemical tests of stem extracts of Cordia sinensisLamk. Sr.No. Constituents Chemical ,est Extract Pe troleum Chloroform Bater ether 1 Alkaloids Erage ndroffKs Reagent - - TT MayerKs Reagent - - - Bagne rs reagent - - - 2 Carbohydrates O 3ehlingKs Reagent - - TT Hlycosides 3 Steroids Salko0ski Reagent - T - Liebe rmann- BurchardKs - T TT reagent 4 Saponins 3oam test - - TTT 5 Tannins Helatin test - - - 3e rric Chloride test - - - 6 Iridiods Trim- Hill reagent - - TT 7 Anthra(uione test - - - . Leuco - - - anthocyanin test 2 Guglone test - TT - 10 3lavonoids Shinoda test - T TT 3lavanonls test - - - 3lavonols test - - - 3lavones and flavanols - - - Rao and sheshadri test - - T Obser ation ,able - II Photochemical tests of Leaf extracts of Cordia sinensisLamk. Sr.No. Constituents Chemical ,est Extract Pe troleum Chloroform Bater ether 1 Alkaloids Erage ndroffKs Reagent - - TT MayerKs Reagent - - - Bagne rs reagent - - - 2 Carbohydrates O 3ehlingKs Reagent - - TT Hlycosides 3 Steroids Salko0ski Reagent - T - Liebe rmann- BurchardKs - T TT reagent 4 Saponins 3oam test - - TTT 5 Tannins Helatin test - - - 3e rric Chloride test - - - 6 Iridiods Trim- Hill reagent - - TT 7 Anthra(uione test - - - . Leuco - - - anthocyanin test 2 Guglone test - TT - 10 3lavonoids Shinoda test - T TT 3lavanonls test - - - 3lavonols test - - - 3lavones and flavanols - - - Rao and sheshadri test - - T SHRI SHIVAJI SCIENCE COLLEGE, NAGPUR 124 ICRTS-2017 IJRBAT, Special Issue (2), Vol-V, July 2017 ISSN No. 2347-517X (Online) Discussion and Conclusion tree species, Ph.E. Thesis, Photochemical scree ning of plant 12.6pub.Amravati Dnive rsity. e1tracts provides information about the Hhori, V. P., et al., (2011) Pharmacognostic study photochemical constitutes present in various of leaves of Cordia rothii, Pharmacognosy plant parts. Phytochemical tests 0ere carried out Gournal, Vol-3, Issue , pp.(35-3.) in the laboratory and screened out various Harborne G. B., (122.) Phytoche mical me thod, A metabolites from the plant. The curative guide to mode rn techni(ue of plant properties of medicinal plants are perhaps due to analysis, chapman and Hill , London, 2.. the presence of various secondary me tabolites HaCan A. H., Atta R.,(2005) Trends in such as saponins, tannins, alkaloids, flavonoids, ,thanopharmacology.G ,thnopharmacol, glycosides, sterols, triterpenes etc. may be useful 100-43-42. in the detection of the bioactive compounds and Hoyam 8sman Ahmed, et al., 2012. may be he lpful in drug discovery. Preliminary Morphological and anatomical studies of Photochemical screening of bark e1tracts 0ere Cordia abyssinicaand Cordia sinensis done and recorded various secondary me tabolites (Boraginaceae ) in Sudan, Gournal of from bark ( Ali Abdella ,ltaye ib et al. 2018-. The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Re search, (ualitative tests for all the three e1tracts had 4(10)-45.2-45... sho0n the presence of various metabolites in %irtikar, %. R .and Basu, B. E. (1235) Indian stem and leaf e1tracts as mentioned in the Medicinal Plants, ,dition II, Vol-3, 8rie nt observation table FI and II. In the stem recorded enterprises, pp.(1675-16.1). presence of alkaloids, carbohydrates, steroids, %rishnaiah, E. et al., 2007. Phytoche mical saponins, tannins, iridoids, leucoanthocyanin, antio1idants for health and medicine F A uglone and flavonoids . Anthra(uinone are move to0ards nature, Mol. Biol. Re v, absent. 1(4)-027. Preliminary Photochemical screening of Naik V. N., (122.),3lora of Marath0ada, Vol-I bark e1tracts 0ere done and recorded various ,Amrut Prakashan, Aurangabad, pp.(573- secondary metabolites from leaf e1tracts (Nala 577). Arvindbhai Ha abhai et al. 2012-. In the leaf Na0al AI-Musaye ib, et al., 2011. Antio1idant, e1tracts recorded presence of alkaloids, anti-glycation and anti-inflammatory carbohydrates, steroids, saponins, iridoids, activities of phenolic constituents from uglone, flavonoids. Anthra(uinone, leuco- Cordia sinensis, Molecules, 16, 10214- anthocyanin, tannins are absent. In all the three 10226. solvent e1tracts it is seen that response in a(ueous e1tract is e1cellent. These findings may Sadashivan S. and Manickam A. (2005), be useful to the researchers as stepping stone in Biochemical Me thods. 2nd ,dn.., Ne0 Age orde r to gain the advanced kno0ledge in the International (P) Ltd., Publishe r, Ne0 Eelhi. sub ect. Singh, N. P., et al., (2001) ,3lora of Maharashtra References- State, Eicotyledons , Vol.-II, Botanical Ali Abdella ,ltaye ib and Be dan Ishag (2015), Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. (416-420). Photoche mical screening,
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    Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 23(2): 119-131, 2016 (December) © 2016 Bangladesh Association of Plant Taxonomists LEAF MICROMORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE GENUS CORDIA L. (BORAGINACEAE) FROM EGYPT 1 2 WAFAA AMER, RIM HAMDY AND RIHAM MAHDY Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt Keywords: Cordia; Trichomes; Stomata; SEM; Egypt. Abstract Foliar epidermal characters of nine Cordia L. species found in Egypt are investigated. Glandular trichomes are observed in C. boissieri A. DC. and C. cylindristachya (Ruiz & Pav.) Roem. & Schult., while eglandular trichomes are predominant in all studied species. Different stomatal characters were examined including: shape, size, rims, stomatal level, aperture, cuticular deposition and wax ornamentation. The retrieved results showed a great variation among the studied species. The observed trichomes and stomata were used to construct two different taxonomic keys. Introduction Cordia L. is a large pantropical genus growing across the tropical and subtropical areas of America, Africa, Asia and Oceania (Al-Shehbaz, 1991) with 320 species of trees and shrubs. The genus is represented in the flora of Egypt by eight cultivated and one wild species. Cordia myxa L. was recorded in ancient Egypt (Täckholm, 1961; Lucas, 1962; Darby et al., 1977 and Manniche, 1989). Its fruit was eaten fresh and used to make wine. It may also have been raised for the production of birdlime (Van der veen, 2011). Cordia sinensis Lam. is the only relict species in its wild form; traced in moist ground in oases and Gebel Elba (Täckholm, 1974; Boulos, 2009). It was also raised in the Israel-Palestine area and in the Arabian Peninsula (Feinbrun- Dothan, 1978).