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The essential oil of Acinos suaveolens (Sm.) G. Don fil. Acinos arvensis (Lam.) Dandy and Acinos rotundifolius Pers. growing wild in Turkey

✍ Scribed by Ayla Kaya; K. Hüsnü C. Başer; Gülendam Tümen; Fehmiye Koca

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 83 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0882-5734
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1026(199901/02)14:1<60::aid-ffj785>3.0.co;2-0

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✦ Synopsis

In this study, water-distilled essential oil of three species of Acinos Miller (Lamiaceae) were analysed by GC±MS. Oils from A. suaveolens (Sm.) G. Don ®l. were found to contain pulegone (23.2±80.7%) and isomenthone (1.1±54.1%). Oils from A. arvensis (Lam.) Dandy and A. rotundifolius Pers. were found to contain germacrene-D (14.3% and 14.4±73.1%) hexadecanoic acid (14.0% and 17.5±30.2%).