Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• M.M. Barazandeh

Academic member of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Medicinal Plants Department

Abstract

Hymenocrater elegans Bunge collected from Firoozkooh (Altitude:2400-2500m.) in July 2000. The essential oil obtained from dry leaves of plant by steam distillation. No significant amount of the oil was observed on the upper layer of water. So the oil was extracted from water by adding diethylether.
The extracted oil injected to GC and GC/MS. Thirty- nine major compounds (was higher than 0.1%) The maior constituents compoands were germacrene D (10.2%), β-caryophyllene (9.7%), α-humulene (9.6%), β-bourbonene (7.1%) and germacrene B(6.9%).

Keywords

• essential oil
• Hymenocrater
• elegans Bunge. germacrene and β-caryophyllene
• α-humulene
• β-bourbonene