Phytochemical Screening and GC-MS Analysis of Flower Extract of Dilleniaindica

Dillenia indica is an important medicinal tree. Its leaf and bark extracts are being used as medicine due to the presence of several pharmaceutically important phytochemicals, but presence of phytochemicals in its flowers is still unexplored and there is utmost need to check medicinal efficacy of flower extract. Phytochemical screening of flower extract showed the presence of coumarins, steroids, saponins, flavonoids. GCMS study was done for the identification of bioactive compounds from the methanolic extract of flowers, which showed the presence of various phytochemicals such as Tetrabutyl Titanate, Fucoxanthin, Chromone, Beclomethasone, Betamethasone Acetate, Demecolcine etc. Most of these compounds have many pharmacological activities such as antibacterial, antimicrobial, cancer radiotherapy, cytotoxic activity, antioxidant etc., whereas some chemicals are of industrial importance. Some toxic chemicals were also reported. Present work shows pharmaceutical importance of flowers of Dillenia indica.