Chemical Composition of Flower and Leaf Oils of<i>Cymbopogon densiflorus</i>Stapf from Zambia

Abstract

Abstract The flower and leaf oils of Cymbopogon densiflorus Stapf were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twelve and seventeen compounds were identified in the flower and leaf oils respectively. The flower oil was dominated by limonene (52.1%), trans-p-mentha-2,8-dien-1-ol (10.0%), verbenol (9.7%) and perillyl alcohol (7.2%) while the major components in the leaf oil were trans-p-mentha-2,8-dien-1-ol (22.4%), verbenol (18.0%), perillyl alcohol (17.2%) and cis-p-mentha-1(7),8-dien-2-ol (11.1%).