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JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 11-16Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0972060X.2013.794021
Keywords
Piper amalago; Piperaceae; essentials oils; alpha-amorphene; germacrene D.
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- Fundacao de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul. (FUNDECT)
- Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (FNDCT)
- Centro de Pesquisa do Pantanal (CPP)
- Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT)
- Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico CNPq
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The leaves, flowers, roots and stems of the ornamental and medicinal plant Piper amalago (Piperaceae) were collected from Dourados-MS in the Brazilian and their essential oils were analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Fifty-two, twenty-eight, forty-eight and fifty-one components were identified in the leaf, flower, root and stem oils of P. amalago, respectively. In essential oil leaves the major constituents were alpha-amorphene (25.7 %), p-cymene (9.4 %) and (E)-methyl geranate (7.8 %), in flowers were germacrene D (18.5 %), silphiperfol-6-ene (13.5 %) and limonene (10.5 %), in stems were a-amorphene (23.3 %), alpha-muurolol (9.3 %) and longifolene (6.6 %), and in roots were alpha-amorphene (14.4 %), alpha-muurolol (6.3 %) and alpha-gurjunene (4.4 %).
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