Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pharm Biol. 2010 Feb;48(2):170-6. doi: 10.3109/13880200903062655.
Stachys menthifolia Vis. (Lamiaceae) is an endemic species from the Balkan Peninsula spread throughout Albania, Greece, Montenegro, and Croatia. This article presents the first investigation of the essential oil composition of this species from Croatia. Aerial parts of the plant were collected from three different natural habitats in the region of Biokovo Mountain. The studied populations showed similarity in qualitative, but not in quantitative, composition of their essential oils. Hydrodistilled volatile oil obtained from the plant material of S. menthifolia was subjected to gas chromatographic analysis coupled to mass spectrometry. More than 100 compounds were identified in the three samples, representing 86.8-90.8% of the total oil. The terpene profile of S. menthifolia is characterized by a high content of oxygenated sesquiterpenes (48.4-58.9%) and diterpene hydrocarbons (3.5-25.2%), with 8-alpha-acetoxyelemol (6.9-21.3%), abietatriene (3.5-21.1%), and 4'-methoxyacetophenone (4.5-17.0%) as the main constituents.
穗石蚕 Vis.（唇形科）是一种仅分布于巴尔干半岛的特有种，分布于阿尔巴尼亚、希腊、黑山和克罗地亚。本文首次报道了来自克罗地亚的该种植物精油的组成。从比奥科沃山地区的三个不同的自然生境中采集了该植物的地上部分。研究人群的精油在定性上相似，但在定量上则不同。从穗石蚕植物材料中水蒸气蒸馏得到的挥发性油进行了气相色谱分析与质谱联用。在这三个样品中鉴定出了 100 多种化合物，占总油的 86.8-90.8%。穗石蚕的萜烯图谱以高含量的含氧倍半萜（48.4-58.9%）和二萜烃（3.5-25.2%）为特征，主要成分为 8-α-乙酰氧基 elemol（6.9-21.3%）、abietatriene（3.5-21.1%）和 4'-甲氧基苯乙酮（4.5-17.0%）。
