Essential oil of Lepechinia schiedeana (Lamiaceae) from Costa Rica

José F. Cicció; Victor H Soto; Luis J. Poveda

doi:10.15517/rbt.v47i3.19103

Vol. 47 No. 3 (1999), Articles

Vol. 47 No. 3 (1999)

Essential oil of Lepechinia schiedeana (Lamiaceae) from Costa Rica

Articles

https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v47i3.19103

Published September 1, 1999

José F. Cicció⁺⁻
Victor H Soto⁺⁻
Luis J. Poveda⁺⁻

José F. Cicció

Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), Escuela de Química, Universidad de Costa Rica

Victor H Soto

Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), Escuela de Química, Universidad de Costa Rica

Luis J. Poveda

Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

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Keywords

lepechinia schiedeana
lamiaceae
essential oil composition
GC-MS
phytochemistry

How to Cite

Cicció, J. F., Soto, V. H., & Poveda, L. J. (1999). Essential oil of Lepechinia schiedeana (Lamiaceae) from Costa Rica. Revista De Biología Tropical, 47(3), 373–375. https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v47i3.19103

Abstract

The composition of the essentiaí oil isolated by steam distillation from aerial parts of the Costa Rican herb Lepechinia schiedeana (Schlecht) Vatke (Lamiaceae) collected in El Empalme, Costa Rica, was determined by capillary gas chromatography (GC) and coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) analyses. Fifty-one components were identified corresponding ca. 93% of the oi!. The major components were -pinene (26.6%), cis -pinocamphone (25.1 %), &-3-carene (6.1 %), trans -pinocamphone (4.0%), camphor (3.8%) and

https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v47i3.19103

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