Journal-Chemical Society of Pakistan, 25(4):323-327 (Dec 2003)
Polyphenolic antioxidant constituents of Rosa persica
S. Zamanizadehnajarib
, S. Tahara


Abstract
2,2-Diphenyl-l-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging TLC autographic assay guided fractionation of a butanolic fraction of an acetone extract of Rosa percica resulted in separation and identification of five known phenolic antioxidants for the first time. They are including three flavonoids: catechin (1), (+)-gallocatechin (2) and quercetin 3-0-β?-D- glucuronoside (3), and one condensed tannin: procyanidin B-3 (4), and one hydrolysable tannin: gallic acid 4-0-β-D-(6'-0-galloyl)-gIucopyranoside (5). The radical scavenging activity of 5 is determined by DPPH spectrophotometeric assay.

Flora Orientalis : sive, Enumeratio plantarum ... v.2 pp. 668-669, 1872.

HULTHEMlA (Dumort. Dissert. 1824).
Lowea Lindl. Bot. Reg. — Rhodopsis Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 224.

Calycis tubus globosus fauce constrictus, limbi quinquepartiti laciniae integerrimae. Petala quinque basi nectario maculaeformi obsita. Carpella glaberrima. — Frutex stipulis aculeiformibus, foliis simplicibus. Sententiae cl. et amic. a Bunge qui folium pro stipulis binis connatis habet ob ejus nervationem omnino normalem assentire nequeo.

1. H. berberifolia (Pall. Nov. Act. Petrop. X, p. 397, tab. 10,
fig. 5 sub Rosa) fruticulosa humilis ramosissima, tota glabra vel breviter tomentella, aculeis omnibus stipularibus fere oppositis patentisubincurvis albis. foliis ovatis vel obovato-cuneatis subsessilibus obtiisis dentatis, floribus solitariis terminalibus, calycis tubo dense aculeato-hirto, laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis dorso setosis persistentibus patentibus, petalis aureis basi atropurpureis 5. Ledeb. Ic. Ross. tab. 370. — Lowea berberifolia Lindl Bot. Reg. tab. 1261.

Hab. in sterilibus siccis interdum subsalsis Persiae occidentalis prope Assadabad et Haniudan (Haussk!), borealis in jugo Elbrusensi et planitiebus ad ejus meridiem sitis (Oliv! Auch. exs. 1428! Ky. exs. 698!). Fl. Apr. Jun.

Vix pedalis. Flores in genere minuti. Fructus avellana minor.
β. Stenophylla.—Humilior, folia angustiora lineari-oblonga.
Hab. ad Teheran (Ky. Exs. 26!).
Ar. Geogr. Desertum Songaro-Khirghisicum.

On Buds and Stipules (1899) p. 188
Sir John Lubbock, Bart. M.P.
The stem is prickly, and the frequent occurrence of the prickles, sometimes in pairs, at the base of the leaf has led to their description as stipules; for instance, by Boissier in his great ‘Flora Orientalis’

Rosa persica (Ṯābeti: Hulthemia persica; Pers. varak), a low shrub (50-60 cm high), with a reddish brown macula at the base of the yellow petals of its simple flowers; habitat: the steppes of Azerbaijan, Hamadān, Qazvin, Tehran, Semnān and Dāmḡān, Gorgān, Khorasan, etc.; also found in Afghanistan (Herat) and Turkmenistan (Zieliński, p. 6; Ḵātamsāz, pp. 38-39).

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