Table 5.

Summary of steroids

Compound subclass	Isolated metabolites	Plasmodial strain (activities)	Plant species (Family), Taxon IDb	Part of the plant studied	Place of harvest (City, Country)	Author, references
Ergostane phytosterols	109a, 110a, and 111	3D7 (IC50 values range from 11.2 to 22.0 µM)	Antrocaryon klaineanum (Anacardiaceae), NCBI:txid289695	Stem bark	Mount Kala, Cameroon	Douanla et al. [94]
		W2 ( IC50 values range from 11.2 to 22.0 µM)
	112	W2mef (IC50 value = 53.45 µM)	Peperomia vulcanica (Piperaceae), NCBI:txid1719589	Whole plant	Mount Cameroon, Cameroon	Ngemenya et al. [79]
	113	W2 (IC50 value = 153.79 µM)	Polyalthia longifolium var. pendula (Annonaceae), NCBI:txid235806	Stem	Tikrom, near Kumasi, Ghana	Gbedema et al. [68]
	113	W2 (IC50 value = 172.9 µM)	Turraea robusta (Meliaceae), NCBI:txid1899148	Stem bark	Nairobi, Kenya	Irungu et al. [95]
		D6 (IC50 value = 68.3 µM)
Phytosterol glucosides	114 to 116	D6 and W2 (from weak to moderate activities)	Turraea nilotica (Meliaceae), NCBI:txid992803	Stem bark	Nairobi, Kenya	Irungu et al. [95]

^aCompounds identified for the first time in the cited publications

^bIdentification number of the source species, derived from the NCBI Taxonomy database