Steganotaenia araliacea
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Steganotaenia araliacea is a species of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 in the Apiaceae
Apiaceae
The Apiaceae , commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems. The family is large, with more than 3,700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants...

 family. It is found in Cameroon
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

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Active Compounds

Plant contains the number of substance with antimitotic and antitubulin activity on various lines of neoplasmic cells in this are :
  • Steganacin
  • Stegangin
  • Steganolide A
  • Steganol
  • Steganone
  • Epistegangin (Steganone ketone)
  • Steganoate B

Moreover devoid such activity Steganoate A .
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