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

Biochemistry

Selligueain A 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, 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