Essential oils of Lippia alba (Mill.) N. E. Br growing wild in the Brazilian Amazon
✍ Scribed by Maria das G. B. Zoghbi; Eloisa H. A. Andrade; Alberdan S. Santos; Milton Hélio L. Silva; José Guilherme S. Maia
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0882-5734
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✦ Synopsis
The essential oils of aerial parts of specimens of Lippia alba (Mill.) N. E. Br were analysed by GC±MS. The plants were collected at three municipalities of Para State, Brazil, and their oils shown to be quite dierent. The samples of essential oils may be divided into three groups. The ®rst, type A (collected at Santa Maria), is characterized by 1,8-cineole (34.9%), limonene (18.4%), carvone (8.6%) and sabinene (8.2%). The second, type B (collected at Belterra), is dominated by limonene (32.1%), carvone (31.8%) and myrcene (11.0%). The third, type C (collected at Chaves), is represented by neral (13.7%), geranial (22.5%), germacrene-D (25.4%) and b-caryophyllene (10.2%).