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Chemical Composition of Vegetative Parts and Flowers Essential Oils of Wild Anvillea garcinii Grown in Saudi Arabia

Merajuddin Khan, Mahmood Mohammed Saeed Abdullah, Ahmad Amine Mousa and Hamad Zaid Alkhathlan

Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh - 11451, Saudi Arabia

Abstract: The flowers and vegetative parts essential oils of Anvillea garcinii were analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS using polar and nonpolar columns which led to the identification of total 140 compounds from both oils, among which 130 compounds were identified for the first time in the genus Anvillea. In the flowers oil 126 compounds were identified, whereas 119 compounds were identified in the vegetative parts oil of A. garcinii representing 95.7% and 94.9% of the total oil composition, respectively. The major components in the flowers oil were bornyl acetate (33.7%), cis-nerolidol (7.3%) and camphene (6.1%). In contrast, the major compounds in the vegetative parts oil were cis-nerolidol (16.0%), terpine n-4-ol (10.4%) and cabreuva oxide B (6.4%).

Keywords: Asteraceae; essential oils; bornyl acetate; cabreuva oxide; Anvillea garcinii. © 2015 ACG Publications. All rights reserved.