Table 1.

Plants used in the present study and evidence of their bioactivities

Samples, (family), and herbarium number a	Traditional treatment	Area of plant collection	Known bioactive (or potentially active) compounds	Screened activity for crude plant extracts and bioactive compounds
Vepris soyauxii Engl. (Rutaceae) 18394 SFR/Cam	Fibromyomes [15], stomac ache and malaria [16,17].	Melon, Littoral region of Cameroon	Maculin, flindersiamin, skimmianin, (-) ribalinin, (+)-isoplatydesinin and araliopsin [17].	Stem bark extracts reduced sex hormones and some sperm parameters in male albinos rats [16].
Peperomia fernandopoiana C.DC. (Piperaceae); 7171 SRF/Cam	Gastrointestinal troubles and sterility (personal information)	Lebialem, South West region of Cameroon	/
Pachypodanthium staudtii Engl & Diels (Annonaceae), 23170 SFR/Cam	Chest pain, tumors [18]; toothache [19]; bronchitis [20] and oedemas [21].	Ebolowa, Sud region of Cameroon	Pachypodol, 2,4,5-Trimethoxystyrene, Pachypophyllin, pachypostaudins A and B [21]; pachypodanthine [22]; Pachypophyllin and pachysontol [23]; staudin [24]; Sabinene, β -elemene, E- β -caryophyllene, β -selinene, β -bisabolene, δ -cadinene, 2,4,5-trimethoxy-1-vinylbenzene [25].	Hexane fraction protects legume seeds from bruchid insects: Acanthoscelides obtectus Say on common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and Callosobruchus maculatus on cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)[26].
				The flavonoid Pachypodol or 3,7,3’-tri-O-methylquercetin) showed antiviral activity against the polio-virus [21,27].
Crassocephalum biafrae (Oliv. et Hiern) S.Moore 43562 HNC	Diabetes, pulmonary defects ([28,29]; bleeding, sore eyes, cough, heart troubles, rheumatic pain, oedemas [30] and women infertility [31,32].	Bandja, Haut-Nkam; West region of Cameroon	Biafraecoumarins A, B, and C [33].	Biafraecoumarins A, B, and C exhibit low to significant antimicrobial activities against E. coli, B. subtilis, S. aureus, P. picketti, T. longifusus, A.flavus, M.canis, F.solani, C.albicans, and C.glabrata[33].
				The evidence on the puberty onset induction and ovarian folliculogenesis effect of the aqueous extract in immature female rat have been demonstrated [34].
Entada gigas (Linn) Fawcelt et Rendle (Mimosaceae) 5861 SRF/Cam	Microbial infections (Personal information)	Foreke-Dschang, West region of Cameroon	/	/
Cinchona succirubia Par. Ex Klotzsk. (Rubiaceae) 25851 SRF/Cam	Malaria [35,36].	Foreke-Dschang, West region of Cameroon	Quinine [36]	Evident antiplasmodial activity against chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum and a total chemosuppression of parasitaemia in mice infected with Plasmodium berghei have been demonstrated [35].
Beilschmiedia obscura (Staph).Engl.(Lauraceae)2102 SRFK	Gastrointestinal infection (personal information)	Dschang market, West region of Cameroon	Obscurine [37]	/

^a(HNC), Cameroon National Herbarium; (SRF): Société des réserves forestière du Cameroun; ^b(/): Not reported.