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Microsorum punctatum

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Wikipedia Abstract

Microsorum punctatum is a medicinal fern. Juice extracted from the fronds (leaves) of the fern is used as purgative, diuretic, and wound healing agents. Water extract of the fern was found to have alpha-glucosidase inhibitory activity and cytotoxicity against a human chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line (K562).
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Predators

Pan paniscus (pygmy chimpanzee)[1]

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0