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THE water-soluble red pigments present in young fern fronds do not seem to have been investigated since Price, Sturgess, Robinson and Robinson1 in 1938 reported that unusual flavylium salts, resembling 6-hydroxypelargonidin or 6-hydroxycyanidin in their colour preperties, occurred in eight ferns. Recent phytochemical interest in the phenolic constituents of lower plants2 and the discoveries of luteolinidin (I, R = OH) in the moss Bryum3 and of an unidentified anthocyanidin in a fungus4 suggested that the fern pigments would bear re-investigation.
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HARBORNE, J. Anthocyanins in Ferns. Nature 207, 984 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207984a0
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