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Essential Oil Composition of Three Centaurea Species from Turkey: Centaurea aggregata Fisch. & Mey. ex. DC. subsp. aggregata, C. balsamita Lam. and C. behen L.

Tuğçe Erdoğan, Burcu Sümer, Özge Özçınar, Uğur Çakılcıoğlu, Betül Demirci, Kemal Hüsnü Can Başer and Bijen Kıvçak

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Türkiye

Department of Food Technology, Pertek Sakine Genc  Vocational High School ,   Tunceli University, Pertek, Tunceli, Türkiye

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Türkiye

Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Near East University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, Nicosia, N. Cyprus

Abstract: The essential oils of Centaurea aggregata subsp. aggregata, C. balsamita and C. behen collected in the same habitat from Turkey, have been investigated. A total of 26, 54 and 26 components were identified in C. aggregata subsp. aggregata, C. balsamita and C. behen, respectively. The main constituents of the investigated populations of the three taxa have been revealed as follows: Centaurea aggregata subsp. aggregata: hexadecanoic acid (35.8%), phytol (7.2%), caryophyllene oxide(6.0%), spathulenol (6.0%); C. balsamita: hexadecanoic acid (23.0%), spathulenol (8.9%), germacrene D (2.1%); C. behen: hexadecanoic acid (32.7%), germacrene D (14.8%), and phytol (12.3%).

Keywords:Centaurea aggregata subsp. aggregata; Centaurea balsamita; Centaurea behen ; Asteraceae; essential oil. © 2016 ACG Publications. All rights reserved.