• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.207-210
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• 1991

From the chloroform and n-butanol extracts of Selaginella tamariscina, three biflavonoids were isolated by chromatographic separation. Structures of these compounds were determined as cryptomerin B, amentoflavone and isocryptomerin by spectroscopic analysis, and amentoflavone was further identified by comparison with the authentic sample. This is the first report of isolation of cryptomerin B from Selaginellaceae.