Lobophytum sarcophytoides is a soft coral known for two new cembrane-type diterpenoids, lobophytins and four new prostaglandins from a specimen.

[1] SYSU-MS001, a specimen of L. sarcophytoides, was collected in the South China Sea.

Biologists extracted the specimen and discovered two new cembrane-type diterpenoids, named lobophytins, as well as four new prostaglandins.

[1] Additionally, the chemical Sarcophytolin D has been taken from other specimens of the species.

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