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Original Articles

Essential Oils of Piper dumosum Rudge and Piper aleyreanum C.DC (Piperaceae) from Brazilian Amazonian Forest

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Pages 165-166 | Received 01 Sep 2005, Accepted 01 May 2006, Published online: 28 Nov 2011
 

Abstract

The essential oils obtained from the leaves of Piper dumosum Rudge and Piper aleyreanum C. DC, collected from the southern Amazon forest, Brazil, were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. The major components found in the oil of P. dumosum were biclyclogermacrene (16.2%), β-caryophyllene (15.9%), β-pinene (16.0%) and α-pinene (12.1%). The oil of P. aleyreanum showed as main constituents β-pinene (14.4%), isocaryophyllene (17.5%) and β-caryophyllene (18.6%).

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