Chemotypic Variation in Indian Lantana camara Essential Oil

The essential oil from the leaves of Lantana camara from Dibrugarh, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, after spectroscopic analysis, has shown that cis-davanone, an uncommon sesquiterpenoid, is its major constituent, while the essential oil from flowers contained beta-caryophyllene and bicyc...

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Published in:The Journal of essential oil research 2011-05, Vol.23 (3), p.1-5
Main Authors: Misra, Laxminarain, Saikia, Anil K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
beta-caryophyllene
bicyclogermacrene
chemotypes
cis-β-davanone
essential oils
flowers
Lantana camara
Lantana camara L. var. aculeata
leaves
oils
spectroscopy
Verbenaceae
β-caryophyllene
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Summary:The essential oil from the leaves of Lantana camara from Dibrugarh, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, after spectroscopic analysis, has shown that cis-davanone, an uncommon sesquiterpenoid, is its major constituent, while the essential oil from flowers contained beta-caryophyllene and bicyclo-germacrene as the major components. Presence of davanone in the essential oil from leaves of this region clearly showed that L. camara exists in the form of another chemotype in the northeastern part of India as compared to north and north central India, wherein beta-caryophyllene is the major component. The oil has been extracted from three different locations of the northeastern region successively for four years to confirm the stability of the chemotype.
ISSN:1041-2905
2163-8152
DOI:10.1080/10412905.2011.9700449