Wrightia tinctoria
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| Wrightia tinctoria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Wrightia |
| Species: | W. tinctoria |
| Binomial name | |
| Wrightia tinctoria (Roxb.) R.Br., Mem. Wern. Soc. 173. 1809. | |
Wrightia tinctoria, Pala indigo plant or dyers’s oleander, is a flowering plant species in the genus Wrightia found in India.
The plant contains wrightial, a triterpenoid chemical,[1] along with cycloartenone, cycloeucalenol, β-amyrin, and β-sitosterol isolated from the MeOH extract of the immature seed pods.
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