Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands,P.O.Box:13185-116, Tehran,Iran
Abstract
The genus of Tanacetum polycephalum Schultz-Bip. Represents 7 species in Iran, one of the more distributed species is Tanacetum polycephalum Schultz-Bip subsp. polycephalum. The plant was collected from Lar-Lacem valley in Jun.2001 and 88 grams of it,s dry flowers was hydrodistilled for 3 hours to produce an oil at the yield of 0.7%(based on dry weight). The sample were analyzed by a combination of capillary GC and GC/MS. Therty components were identified that approximately constituent more than 98.4 % of the oil. The main constituents of the essential oil were camphor (46.3%), borneol (15.0%), 1,8-cineole (9.0%), camphene (7.9%) and isobornyl acetate (4.9%) were the major constituents respectively.
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