eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal 0974-6242 2015-05-02 7 1 285 287 10.13005/bpj/489 2962 article Raina Jadhav 1 Sangeeta Parihar 2 Department of Chemistry, ISLE, IPS Academy, Indore, India. Department of Chemistry, Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, India. The fat obtained from the shade dried plant Malachra capitata (Linn) was saponified and the unsaponifiable matter was isolated. The unsaponifiable matter was identified as β - sitosterol by chemical and spectroscopic analysis. https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol7no1/isolation-and-study-of-b-sitosterol-the-unsaponifiable-matter-from-the-plant-malachra-capitata-linn/ Malachra capitata (Linn) N.O.- Malvacaea unsaponifiable matter β-sitosterol