Volatile components of<i>Centaurea eryngioides</i>Lam. and<i>Centaurea iberica</i>Trev. var.<i>hermonis</i>Boiss. Lam., two Asteraceae growing wild in Lebanon

Abstract

The volatile components of the flowerheads of Centaurea eryngioides Lam. and Centaurea iberica Trev. var. hermonis Boiss. Lam. were obtained by hydrodistillation and identified by GC and GC-MS. Altogether 91 components, mostly fatty acids and hydrocarbons, were identified.