The mangrove plant Heritiera littoralis D. (Sterculi-aceae) is widelydistributed in southeastern Asia and traditionally used as a fish, arrowhead, and spearhead poison .It has also been used as a folk medicine to trea...The mangrove plant Heritiera littoralis D. (Sterculi-aceae) is widelydistributed in southeastern Asia and traditionally used as a fish, arrowhead, and spearhead poison .It has also been used as a folk medicine to treat he-maturia and diarrhea for a long history inChina . Past investigations on the chemical constituents of this plant have yielded fourtriterpenes, five sesquiterpenes, a phe-nylproanoid-glycerol and four flavonoids. In the presentstudy, eight flavonoids were isolated from the 95% EtOH extract of the leaves of this plant, andidentified as quercitrin (1), quercetin (2),kaempferol-3-O-(6″-O-E-p-coumaroyl)-β-D-glucopyranoside ( 3 ), kaempferol (4), kaempferitrin (5),myricetin (6), eriodictyol (7), and catechin (8) on the basis of their spectral data.展开更多
文摘The mangrove plant Heritiera littoralis D. (Sterculi-aceae) is widelydistributed in southeastern Asia and traditionally used as a fish, arrowhead, and spearhead poison .It has also been used as a folk medicine to treat he-maturia and diarrhea for a long history inChina . Past investigations on the chemical constituents of this plant have yielded fourtriterpenes, five sesquiterpenes, a phe-nylproanoid-glycerol and four flavonoids. In the presentstudy, eight flavonoids were isolated from the 95% EtOH extract of the leaves of this plant, andidentified as quercitrin (1), quercetin (2),kaempferol-3-O-(6″-O-E-p-coumaroyl)-β-D-glucopyranoside ( 3 ), kaempferol (4), kaempferitrin (5),myricetin (6), eriodictyol (7), and catechin (8) on the basis of their spectral data.
