“…Methanol/water (80/20 v/v) extracts of the aerial parts and roots of A. africanus were fractionated and purified by successive chromatographic techniques yielding thirty-three specialized metabolites including ten undescribed compounds (4-13) and twenty-three known compounds (1-3 and 14-33) (Supplemenary data ). The known compounds were identified by comparing their spectral data with literature values as referenced: (Huang et al, 2008) (Shvets et al, 1994) (Terada et al, 1995), asparenydiol ( 14) (Miyakoshi et al, 2000), 5-[5-(4-hydroxyphenoxy)-3penten-1-ynyl]-2-methoxyphenol (15), previously isolated from Asparagus gobicus under the name of 1-methoxy-2-hydroxy-4-[5-(4-hydroxyphenoxy)-3-penten-1-ynyl]-phenol (Yang et al, 2005), nyasol ( 16) (Tsui et al 1996 ;Oketch-Rabah et al, 1997), 3'-methoxynyasol (17), 3′hydroxy-4′-methoxy-4′-dehydroxynyasol (18) (Zhang et al, 2004), iso-agatharesinol (19) (Yang et al, 2004a), 1-O-p-coumaroylglycerol (20) (Luo et al, 2012), syringaresinol (21), syringaresinol-4-O-β-D-glucopyranoside ( 22) (Tong et al, 2005 ;Inui et al, 2010), hordénine (23) (Küçükosmanoǧlu et al, 2005), N-methyltyramine (24) (Nash et al, 1992), apigenin 6-Cβ-D-glucopyranosyl-8-C-β-D-ribopyranoside (25), apigenin 6-C-α-L-arabinopyranosyl-8-C-β-Dglucopyranoside (26), vicenin 3 (27) (Chimichi et al, 1998 ;Chen et al, 2019), quercetin 3- (Adell et al, 1988;Eldahshan, 2011), benzyl-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→6)-β-D-glucopyranoside (30) (De Tommasi et al, 1996), aurantiamide acetate (31) (Zhou et al, 2017), asperphenamate (32) (Catalán et al, 2003) and sesamin (33) that was identified by comparison with spectral data available at our laboratory.…”