1. Essential Oil of Haplophyllum tuberculatum (Forssk.) A. Juss. from the United Arab Emirates.
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Al Yousuf, Maryam H., Bashir, Ahmed K., Veres, Katalin, Dobos, Ágnes, Nagy, Gábor, Máthé, Imre, Blunden, Gerald, and Vera, Janne Rojas
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ESSENTIAL oils ,RUTACEAE ,CHEMICAL composition of plants - Abstract
Essential oils of Haplophyllum tuberculatum (Forssk.) A. Juss., produced from plants collected in the United Arab Emirates, were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. The composition of the oils varied considerably. Those obtained from plants collected in May (1997 and 2001) were similar, with α-phellandrene (10.7-32.9%) being the major component and with significant amounts of β-caryophyllene (6.3-12.8%), β-pinene (7.6-8.0%), limonene (4.0-9.6%) and δ-3-carene (5.5-6.0%). However, the oil distilled from plants collected in April (1998) had major components of linalool (15.0%), linalyl acetate (10.6%), β-caryophyllene (9.7%) and alpha;-terpineol (6.7%). The compositions of all three oils prepared from UAE collected plants differed significantly from those reported for the same species collected in Egypt and Iran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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