Garcinia is a plant under the family of Clusiaceae that is commonly used as a flavouring agent. Various phytochemicals including flavonoids and organic acid have been identified in this plant. Among all types of organic acids, hydroxycitric acid or more specifically (-)-hydroxycitric acid has been identified as a potential supplement for weight management and as antiobesity agent. Various in vi...

Calophyllum brasiliense (Clusiaceae) is a tree that grows mainly in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Its leaves possess antibacterial activity, cytotoxic activity against certain tumor cell lines, and antimicrobial activity in BALB/c mice infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis.Aiming to identify ultrastructural changes and DNA fragmentation in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis, promast...

Calophyllum inophyllum Linn. (Clusiaceae) is a medicinal plant, distributed in many countries of the tropics and subtropics. It has an otablenumber of medicinal properties with high curative value. C. inophyllum is very important for its medicinal value. Various parts of this plant such as the leaves, bark, flowers, fruits and seeds were used for the treatment of different ailments in the indig...

Garcinia lancifolia (Clusiaceae) is an unexplored medicinal plant used as stomachic, diuretic and its fruit is used to cure dysentery and diarrhoea. The acidic fruits are used to prepare juice, pickle and curries. The phytochemical analysis of different extracts of G. lancifolia leaf, stem and fruit revealed the presence of tannins, saponins, flavonoids, terpenoids, alkaloids and cardiac glycos...

Clusia fluminensis Planch. & Triana (Clusiaceae Lindl.) is a native species found in regions of high luminosity and water restriction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant activity of Clusia fluminensis crude extracts through the scavenging of the stable free radical DPPH, and the determination of flavones and flavonols content in these extracts. The fruit acetonic extract show...

Phytochemical and biological studies were carried out the stem bark of Cratoxylum arborescens collected from Sarawak, Malaysia. Chromatographic separation of the plant extracts led to the isolation of three xanthones, -mangostin (1), -mangostin (2) and fuscaxanthone C (3) together with the commom stigmasterol. The structural elucidation of the compound was determined by detail spectroscopic a...

The title benzophenone compound, C(14)H(12)O(6)·H(2)O, was isolated from the bark of Garcinia hombroniana Pierre (Guttiferae). The mol-ecule is twisted, the dihedral angle between the two benzene rings being 59.13 (7)°. The meth-oxy group is approximately coplanar with the attached benzene ring, with a C-O-C-C torsion angle of 1.91 (18)°. The water mol-ecule is disordered over two positions in ...