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Constituents of the essential oil of blumea brevipes (oliv. & hiern) willd
Author(s) -
Mwangi J. W.,
Achola K. J.,
Lwande W.,
Hassanali A.,
Laurent R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
flavour and fragrance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1099-1026
pISSN - 0882-5734
DOI - 10.1002/ffj.2730090506
Subject(s) - sabinene , chemistry , essential oil , germacrene , traditional medicine , germacrene d , composition (language) , botany , food science , limonene , biology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
The composition of the essential oil of Blumea brevipes (Oliv. & Hiern) Willd. isolated by hydrodistillation was analysed by GC and GC‐MS. Sixty‐eight compounds constituting about 94% of the oil were identified. The main components were terpinen‐4‐ol (27.6%), germacrene‐D (15.4%), sabinene (8.0%) and α‐terpinene (5.5%). The essential oil composition of B. brevipes presented here (terpinenol‐germacrene‐type) is different from that of other Blumea /Laggera species.