Preliminary Phytochemical Profiling Of Leaf Extracts Of Bulbophyllum Rosemarianum

Abstract

The medicinal orchids are of great importance, as they are known to contain many numbers of phytochemicals which possess various pharmacological activity. Now a day’s medications are being developed by incorporating the available natural products, specifically those resulting from medicinal plants. Several studies have reported that phytochemical compounds and molecules extracted from the different species of Bulbophyllum are employed in the preparation of plant based medicinesand this genus have attained scientific interest because of its phytochemical components and its efficient biological activities. The present work was carried out to analyze the phytochemicals present in leaf extracts of Bulbophyllum rosemarianum. The leaf part of the plant was collected, shade dried and subjected to the Soxhlet technique for the extraction process with three different polar solvents and its results indicated that ethanol was efficient in extracting phytochemicals and qualitative analysis revealed the existence of different phytochemicals like Flavonoids, Terpenoids, Steroids, Coumarins, Tannin, Phenol, Saponins, Steroids, Glycosides and Quinones. Quantitative analysis stated that ethanolic leaf extracts of Bulbophyllum rosemarianum exhibited comparable levels of total Polyphenolics, Alkaloids and Flavonoids. Further, isolation of phytochemicals and further studies will pay the way for significant application in medicinal and pharmaceutical industries.