''Selliguea feei'' is a fern belonging to the genus ''

Selliguea ''Selliguea'' is a fern genus in the family Polypodiaceae. The type species is ''Selliguea feei''. Species list Species list taken from Hassler & Swale (2002). These are not necessarily accepted species. * '' Selliguea albicaula'' (Copel.) M.Ka ...

'' in the family

Polypodiaceae Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder Polypodiineae. A broade ...

. This fern can be collected in Indonesia. The species name ''feei'' commemorates the botanist

Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée was a French botanist who was born in Ardentes, 7 November 1789, and died in Paris on 21 May 1874. He was the author of works on botany and mycology, practical and historical pharmacology, Darwinism, and his exper ...

Biochemistry

Selligueain A Selligueain A is an A type proanthocyanidin trimer of the propelargonidin type. It can be extracted from the rhizome of the fern '' Selliguea feei'' collected in Indonesia. It has sweetener {{Wiktionary, sweetener A sweetener is a substance ad ...

is an A type proanthocyanidin trimer and a sweetener that can be extracted from the rhizome of the plant.

Kaempferol-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside-7-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside Kaempferol-3-''O''-rutinoside is a bitter-tasting flavonol glycoside. It can be isolated from the rhizomes of the fern ''Selliguea feei ''Selliguea feei'' is a fern belonging to the genus '' Selliguea'' in the family Polypodiaceae Polypodiac ...

, a known bitter-tasting flavonoid glycoside, (-)-4β-carboxymethyl epiafzelechin (3'-deoxydryopteric acid), epiafzelechin-(4β→8, 2β→O→7)-epiafzelechin-(4β→8)-3'-deoxydryopteric acid methyl ester ( selligueain B), and (+)-afzelechin-O-β-4'-D-glucopyranoside were also isolated from the rhizomes of Selliguea feei.

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feei Plants described in 1824 Flora of Java Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent {{Polypodiaceae-stub