1 Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming, 650204, Yunnan, China.
Two new steroidal saponins, taccaoside C (1) and taccaoside D (3), along with one known saponin (2) have been isolated from the methanol extracts of Tacca plantaginea. Their structures have been elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical methods.