Authors’ contributions
DLS (student) contributed in collecting plant sample, running the laboratory work. HDF contributed in collecting plant sampleand identification, confection of herbarium. LLB contributed tothe statistical analyzes. JRP contributed to biological and chemi-cal studies, chromatographic analysis and critical reading of themanuscript. LMFT contributed to critical reading of the manuscript.PAS contributed to chemical studies. PHF contributed to chro-matographic analysis. SS contributed to evaluate the antimicrobialactivity. TSF designed the study, supervised the laboratory work,drafted the paper and contributed to critical reading of themanuscript. All the authors have read the final manuscript andapproved the submission contributed to biological studies runningthe laboratory work, analysis of the data