Conference paper
Chemical composition and biological activity of the essential oils from native Australian Callitris species
Georg Thieme Verlag
Proceedings from the 59th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Medicinal-Plant-and-Natural-Product-Research (Berlin, Germany, 29th August - 2nd September 2010)
2011
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Abstract
<p>The chemical composition of the essential oil of the wood of the Australian native cypress <em>Callitris endlicheri</em>, <em>C. intratropica </em>and <em>C. columellaris</em> were determined by GCMS. The colour of the oils from <em>C. endlicheri</em> were yellow, yellow green and light green, whilst the distinct blue colour of the oil from <em>C. intratropica</em> was in keeping with its generic name ‘blue cypress oil'. The sesquiterpene alcohol guaiol (<em>1</em>) comprised >50% of the <em>C. endlicheri</em> oil. Significant differences were observed in components between the three accessions. In contrast, the oils of <em>C. intratropica</em> showed more subtle variations between collection sites with both oils being high in guaiol (17-21%) together with the sesquiterpene lactones dihydrocolumellarin (<em>2</em>), 12-20%, and columellarin (<em>3</em>), 2-6%. The green oil from <em>C. columellaris</em> was dominantly dihydrocolumellarin.</p>
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- Title
- Chemical composition and biological activity of the essential oils from native Australian Callitris species
- Creators
- Angela Oprava - Southern Cross UniversityDavid N Leach - Southern Cross UniversityKarren Beattie - Southern Cross UniversityPaul Connellan - Southern Cross UniversityPaul Forster - Queensland HerbariumGreg Leach - Herbarium, Palmerston, NTGerhard Buchbauer - University of ViennaKellie Shepherd - Southern Cross UniversityMyrna A Deseo - Southern Cross University
- Conference
- Proceedings from the 59th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Medicinal-Plant-and-Natural-Product-Research (Berlin, Germany, 29th August - 2nd September 2010)
- Comment
Abstract published in Planta Medica 2010, vol. 76.
- Publisher
- Georg Thieme Verlag; Stuttgart, Germany
- Identifiers
- 1680; 991012820732802368
- Academic Unit
- Southern Cross Plant Science
- Resource Type
- Conference paper