Medicinal pteridophytes: ethnopharmacological, phytochemical, and clinical attributes

Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Table 1 Pteridophytes and their antioxidant potential

Family	Species	Method	References
Thelypteridaceae	Abacopteris penangiana	TEAC assay	Zhao et al. [194]
Sinopteridaceae	Cheilanthes anceps	DPPH assay	Chowdhary et al. [37]
Selaginellaceae	Selaginella sp.	In vitro lipid peroxidation	Gayathri et al. [63]
Selaginellaceae	Selaginella labordei	In vitro xanthine oxidase inhibition	Tan et al. [163]
Pteridaceae	Pteris ensiformis	TEAC assays	Wei et al. [180]
Pteridaceae	Pteris multifida	Superoxide scavenging activity	Wang et al. .[177]
Pteridaceae	Pteris tripartita	Metal chelating activity	Baskaran and Jeyachandran [10]
Pteridaceae	Pteris vittata	DPPH assays	Lai and Lim, [90]
Polypodiaceae	Polypodium leucotomus	FRAP assays	Gombau et al. [65]
Marsileaceae	Marsilea quadrifolia	DPPH assay	Ripa et al. [142]
Gleicheniaceae	Dicranopteris linearis	DPPH assay	[112]
Equisetaceae	Equesitum sp.	Total antioxidant capacity	Milovanovic et al. [113]
Dryopteridaceae	Polystichum semifertile	ABTS• + assay	Chen et al. [34, 35]
Dryopteridaceae	Nothoperanema hendersonii	ABTS• + assay	Chen et al. [34, 35]
Blechnaceae	Blechnum orientale	DPPH assay	Lai et al. [89]
Athyriaceae	Diplazium polypodioides	DPPH assay	Kshirsagar and Upadhyay [87]