Chemical composition of Echinophora tenuifolia subsp. sibthorpiana essential oil from Greece

Original Article

JOURNAL 317

Records of Natural Products

VOLUME & ISSUE

Year: 2010 Issue: 3 July September

PAGES

p.167 - 170

STATISTICS

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AUTHORS

Christina Georgiou, Aikaterini Koutsaviti, Ioannis Bazos and Olga Tzakou

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Aerial parts of Echinophora tenuifolia subsp. sibthorpiana were subjected to hydrodistillation and the oil obtained was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. The essential oil was dominated by the presence of monoterpenes with α -phellandrene (43.8%) being the major component, followed by the high percentage of the phenylpropanoic derivative methyleugenol (28.6%), while sesquiterpenes were not detected.

KEYWORDS

Echinophora tenuifolia
essential oil composition
α -phellandrene
methyleugenol. .