Phytochemical, Antimicrobial and Antioxidant studies on the leaf extract of an endemic medicinal plant Canthiumera neilgherrensis(Wight) K.M.Wong (Rubiaceae).

Canthiumera neilgherrensis (Wight) K.M. Wong is a rare medicinal plant that endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Qualitative analysis of phytoconstituents, estimation total phenol, flavonoids, terpenoids, alkaloids, and steroids, Antioxidant activity determined by FRAP DPPH assay, Antibacterial agar well gel diffusion method wasdone. Phytochemicals are mostly concentrated in chloroform methanol extracts. The highest inhibition was found water extract against Pseudomonas aeruginosa which gram-negative bacterium. From the result assays, it clear methanolic extracts show significant inhibitory properties. Higher levels flavonoids phenols were reason behind both antioxidant antibacterial activities.