Phytochemical Screening of Medicinal Plant Lantana camera Linn.

Abstract

Abstract
The phytochemical studies on medicinal plants have served the dual purpose of bringing up new therapeutic agents, providing useful leads of chemotherapeutic studies directed towards the synthesis of drugs modeled on the chemical structure of natural products. Lantana camara is an important medicinal plant with ethnomedicinal properties. It is screened for the presence of major phytochemical screening which shows the presence of steroids, triterpenoids, flavonoids, sugar, phenol, and tannin. The plant showed negative results for quinine, alkaloid, coumarin, and furan. The presence of tannins, triterpenoids and flavonoids may explain its potent bioactive principle against microbes and therapeutic properties.
Keywords: Lantana camara, Phytochemicals, Flavonoids, Tannins, Triterpenoids