The major alkaloids of the genus Melolobium

The major alkaloids of 12 species of the genus Melolobium Eckl. & Zeyh. have been characterized. Variable quantities of anagyrine, camoensine, leontidine, lupanine, N -methylcytisine and thermopsine are present in nearly all of the extracts. Sparteine, cytisine and some unidentified alkaloids occur less frequently. If one species [ Melolobium involucratum (Thunb.) Stirton] is excluded, the genus is morphologically very uniform and also appears to be uniform in its alkaloidal metabolites. Within the tribe Crotalarieae, the combination of thermopsine and the two C 14 alkaloids leontidine and camoensine may prove to be a unique chemotaxonomic character for Melolobium.

• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  South African Journal of Botany

• Publication date

  1988-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0254-6299(16)31308-4
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• The chemotaxonomic significance of integerrimine in Buchenroedera and Lotononis section Krebsia

  1988cited by this paper
• Observations on the occurrence and distribution of alkaloids in some genera and species of the tribe Crotalarieae (Fabaceae)

  1988cited by this paper
• Melolobium involucratum (Fabaceae), a new combination for South Africa

  1986cited by this paper
• Quinolizidine alkaloids as systematic markers of the Genisteae

  1981cited by this paper
• Quinolizidine alkaloids as systematic markers of the papilionoideae

  1980cited by this paper
• Alcaloides du Camoensia maxima

  1975cited by this paper

• Diversity of seed-coat structure and thickness among six genera representing tribes Sophoreae, Crotalarieae, and Genisteae (Papilionoideae, Fabaceae) in Egypt

  2022cites this paper
• Indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids.

  2007cites this paper
• Crotalarieae (Abb. 127, 128)

  2001cites this paper
• ALKALOIDS OF TEMPLETONIA INCANA

  1996cites this paper
• Chapter 1 Lupine Alkaloids

  1995cites this paper
• Alkaloid variation in the Lupinus pusillus group (Fabaceae: tribe Genisteae)

  1995cites this paper
• A revision of Argyrolobium (Crotalarieae, Fabaceae) in South Africa.

  1994cites this paper
• Alkaloids of the Genera Dicraeopetalum, Platycelyphium and Sakoanala.

  1993cites this paper
• The taxonomic significance of alkaloids in the South American genus

  1993cites this paper
• Plant spinescence in arid southern Africa: does moisture mediate selection by mammals?

  1991cites this paper
• Das Alkaloidmuster der Pfropfchimäre Laburnocytisus adamii (Fabaceae)

  1991cites this paper
• The alkaloid pattern of Cytisophyllum sessilifolium (Fabaceae-Genisteae)

  1991cites this paper
• Alkaloids as taxonomic characters in the tribe Crotalarieae (Fabaceae)

  1990cites this paper
• A chemotaxonomic survey of major alkaloids in Lotononis and Buchenroedera

  1989cites this paper
• Taxonomic Relationships amongst Some Genera of Leguminosae Tribe Crotalarieae and Argyrolobium (Genisteae)

  1989cites this paper
• The major alkaloids of the genus Argyrolobium

  1989cites this paper
• Chemotaxonomic significance of alkaloids in the genus Lebeckia

  1989cites this paper
• The major alkaloids of the genus Polhillia

  1988cites this paper