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Chemotaxonomy of Serbian Teucrium Species Inferred from Essential Oil Chemical Composition: the Case of Teucrium scordium L. ssp. scordioides
Author(s) -
Radulović Niko,
Dekić Milan,
Joksović Milan,
Vukićević Rastko
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry and biodiversity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1612-1880
pISSN - 1612-1872
DOI - 10.1002/cbdv.201100204
Subject(s) - teucrium , chemotaxonomy , chemistry , chemical composition , botany , composition (language) , lamiaceae , biology , taxonomy (biology) , organic chemistry , philosophy , linguistics
The volatile constituents of Teucrium scordium L. ssp. scordioides, T. polium , and T. montanum , obtained by hydrodistillation, were investigated by GC‐FID and GC/MS analyses. A total of 296 constituents were identified, representing 89.8–98.4% of the oil compositions. The oils of T. polium and T. montanum consisted mainly of sesquiterpenes (64.3 and 72.7%, resp.), with germacrene D ( 4 ; 31.0%) and δ ‐cadinene ( 10 ; 8.1%) as the main constituents, respectively. In contrast, the monoterpene menthofuran ( 1 ; 11.9%) predominated in the oil of T. scordium ssp. scordioides , and this clearly distinguished this species from the other Teucrium taxa investigated up to date. The chemistry of the volatiles of eight Teucrium taxa from Serbia and Montenegro were compared using multivariate statistical analysis, and this provided chemotaxonomically important conclusions.