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Methanolic extracts from aerial parts and capsules of plants of 5 populations ofBlackstonia perfoliata and 99 populations of nine European and two AmericanCentaurium species (Gentianaceae) have been screened by means of TLC for the secoiridoid glucosides: sweroside, swertiamarin, gentiopicroside and the m-hydroxybenzoyl esters of sweroside, namely centapicrin, desacetylcentapicrin, decentapicrin A and B as well as for the xanthones: 1,8-dihydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyxanthone, 1,8-dihydroxy-3,7-dimethoxyxanthone, 1,8-dihydroxy-3,5,6,7-tetramethoxyxanthone and xanthone-β-mono-glucosides. The taxonomical significance of the results is discussed. On the basis of chemotaxonomical evidence twoCentaurium species,C. pulchellum andC. tenuiflorum, are placed in sect.Parviflora instead of sect.Centaurium subsect.Parviflora.
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Part 8 in the series “Secoiridoids and Xanthones in the genusCentaurium”. For part 7 see:Van der Sluis & Labadie (1985). — Parts of this study were presented at the 10th annual congress of “Farmacognosie en Natuurstofchemie” in Utrecht, Nederland, Nov. 11, 1983. For summary see:van der Sluis, W. G., & Labadie, R. P. (1984), Pharm. Weekbl.119, 905–906.
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van der Sluis, W.G. Chemotaxonomical investigations of the generaBlackstonia andCentaurium (Gentianaceae). Pl Syst Evol 149, 253–286 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00983311
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