The chemical composition of the aerial parts essential oil of growing wild in Israel.

L'Hér is a large genus of Lamiaceae family comprising of ca. 300 species distributed through the tropical and warm regions of the Old-World, including Africa, from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Asia and Australia. Several species are edible, and some ones have been also used as traditional medicinal of several countries. Phytochemical investigations on non-volatile metabolites of species of this genus indicated them of source of diterpenoids with abietane, phyllocladanes, kaurene skeleton. Codd. is an invasive, ornamental and traditional medicinal plant native of Central-East Africa, which was spread around the world by Portuguese, especially in the Americas. In the present communication, the aerial parts of , identified wild for the first time in Israel, were analysed for the composition of its essential oil, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Considerations with respect to all the other essential oils of accessions were carried out.