The Essential Oils of Australian Austromyrtus sens. lat. Part 3. The Austromyrtus bidwillii Group

✍ Scribed by Joseph J. Brophy; Robert J. Goldsack; Christopher J. R. Fookes; Paul I. Forster

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 829 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1026(199609)11:5<275::aid-ffj586>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

The essential oils of 23 species of Austromyrtus sens. lat. have been examined. Austromyrtus gonoclada contains 2-hydroxy-4,6-dimethoxy-3,5-dimethylacetophenone as its principal component. The remaining 22 species fall into two groups in which the leaf essential oils are either dominated by sesquiterpenes or have monoterpenes accounting for 50% or more of the oil. Into the first group fall both chemotypes of A . floribunda. one chemotype of A.