Phenolic benzoic acid esters.

Any of a group of plants formed by a symbiotic combination of a fungus with an algae or CYANOBACTERIA, and sometimes both. The fungal component makes up the bulk of the lichen and forms the basis for its name.

A plant species which is known as an Oriental traditional medicinal plant.

Benzoate derivatives substituted by one or more hydroxy groups in any position on the benzene ring.

A subclass of iridoid compounds that include a glycoside moiety, usually found at the C-1 position.

A phylum of fungi which have cross-walls or septa in the mycelium. The perfect state is characterized by the formation of a saclike cell (ascus) containing ascospores. Most pathogenic fungi with a known perfect state belong to this phylum.

Cyclic esters of hydroxy carboxylic acids, containing a 1-oxacycloalkan-2-one structure. Large cyclic lactones of over a dozen atoms are MACROLIDES.