The diethyl ether extract of the moss Floribundaria aurea subsp. nippo
nica yielded polypoda-7,13,17,21-tetraene. This is the first example o
f its isolation from a moss, although it has been isolated from ferns.
Further purification of the extract afforded dammara-17Z, 21-diene in
addition to diploptene, hop-22 (20)-ene. The structure of dammara-17Z
, 21-diene was established by extensive 2D NMR techniques. (C) 1998 El
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