Table 2.

Brine shrimp lethality assay results of extracts or fractions of 23 plant species of the Leguminosae family

No.	Plant species	Solvent	LC 50 value (μg/mL)a
1	Astragalus squarrosus	Methanol	54.91 ± 0.38
2	Caesalpinia gilliesii	Methanol	36.67 ± 0.59
3	Crotalaria burhia	Methanol	44.45 ± 0.39
4	Gleditschia caspica	Methanol	37.10 ± 0.16
5	Glycyrrhiza glabra var. glabra	Methanol	50.41 ± 0.73
6	Glycyrrhiza glabra var. glandulifera	Methanol	44.51 ± 0.48
7	Indigofera articulata	Methanol	42.43 ± 0.23
8	Indigofera intricata	Methanol	44.08 ± 0.45
9	Lathyrus annus	Methanol	> 90
10	Lathyrus sativus var. stenophyllus	Methanol	45.42 ± 0.31
11	Lotus corniculatus subsp. corniculatus	Methanol	32.00 ± 0.14
12	Medicago rigidula	Methanol	35.48 ± 0.17
13	Melilotus indicus	Methanol	72.52 ± 0.80
14	Onobrychis altissima	Methanol	51.38 ± 0.89
15	Sophora alopecuroides	Methanol	73.11 ± 1.20
16	Sophora pachycarpa	Methanol	56.73 ± 0.55
17	Taverniera cuneifolia	Methanol	39.39 ± 0.55
18	Taverniera spartea	Methanol	0.34 ± 0.01
19	Taverniera spartea	Chloroform	113.79 ± 1.43
20	Tephrosia persica	Methanol	2.43 ± 0.03
21	Tephrosia persica	Chloroform	1.23 ± 0.03
22	Trifolium campestre	Methanol	32.97 ± 0.17
23	Trifolium repens	Methanol	36.35 ± 0.59
24	Trigonella spruneriana	Methanol	52.41 ± 1.24
25	Vicia peregrina var. peregrina	Methanol	92.58 ± 1.07
26	Thymolb	-	1.37 ± 0.005

^a All values are the means of three measurements ± SD. ^bPositive control