Essential oil compositions of Daphne sericea vahl. flowers with hydrodistillation method

Abstract

The genus Daphne from Thymelaeceae family, mostly consists of trees, shrubs, subshrubs, and herbaceous plants. The Daphne genus has seven species in the flora of Turkey. The genus has two species in the flora of Hatay: Daphne sericea Vahl. and Daphne oleiodes var. kurdica Schreber. D. sericeae has been studied for some properties but no scientific report has been found for essential oil composition. The aim of this study is to reveal the essential oil content and components of Daphne sericea Vahl. flowers from the flora of Hatay. Essential oil content of Daphne was found very low. GC-MS analysis showed 49 component represented 99.71% of essential oil. Most of the essential oil components were found as pentacosane (13.94%), methyl linoleate (10.92%), tetratetracontene (9.74%), decanal (8.08%), pentatriacontane (6.85%), ethyl linoleate (3.95%), methyl palmitate (3.60%), tridecanal (3.41%), nonal (3.17%), germacrene-D (3.06%), cis-farnesol (3.05%). pentacosane (13.94%), methyl linoleate (10.92%), tetratetracontene (9.74%), decanal (8.08%), pentatriacontane (6.85%), ethyl linoleate (3.95%), methyl palmitate (3.60%), tridecanal (3.41%), nonal (3.17%), germacrene-D (3.06%), cis-farnesol (3.05%).