Chemical composition of the essential oils from the rhizome, leaf and seed of Peucedanum petiolare (DC.)Boiss

The oil constituents from rhizomes, leaves and seed of Peucedanum petiolare (DC.) Boiss., gathered in Touchal on mountain Alborz (Tehran province) in Iran, have been studied by GC and GC/MS. The major constituents in the rhizome oil were found to be beta-bisabolene (31.3%), (E)-sesquilavandulol (20.5%), geranyl acetate (5.7%), citronellyl acetate (5.2%) and sabinene (5.2%). In the leaf oil the main components found were sabinene (42.3%), alpha-pinene (42.6%) and limonene (2.6%). In the seed alpha-pinene (47.3%) and sabinene (45.9%) were the predominant constituents. Copyright (c) 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.