Initial investigation of medicinal plants from Lombok has resulted in the
collection of 100 plant species predicted to have antimicrobial, including antimalarial,
properties according to local medicinal uses. These plants represent 49 families and 80
genera; 23% of the plants tested positively for alkaloids. Among the plants testing positive,
five have been selected for further investigation involving structure elucidation and
antimicrobial testing on the extracted alkaloids. Initial work on structural elucidation of
some of the alkaloids is reported briefly