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. 2024 Jun 18;13(12):1683. doi: 10.3390/plants13121683

Table 2.

Chemical composition of essential oils of different species in the genus Hyssopus L.

Species Location Number of Identified Compounds Main Compounds Reference
H. officinalis, culture Poland From 27 to 36 Cis-pinocamphone (40.07–45.45%) [12]
H. ambiguus Kazakhstan 9 1,8-cineole (36.0–43.5%) [24,25]
H. cuspidatus Kazakhstan 83 Pinocarvone (27.06%), 1,8-cineole (10.76%), cis-pinocarveol (9.57%) [26]
H. cuspidatus China 38 Verbenone (23.84%), β-pinene (19.76%), pinocamphone (17.95%), 1,8-cineole (7.16%), myrtenol (7.06%) [27]
H. cuspidatus China 36 Germacrene D (18.67%), hexadecanoic acid (17.53%), germacrene B (15.61%), trans-caryophyllene (8.04%) [28]
H. cuspidatus China 39 Thymol (19.65%), pinocamphone (15.30%), γ-terpinene (14.63%), p-cymene (7.49%), β-pinene (6.57%) [29]
H. officinalis Iran 14 Camphor (23.61%), β-pinene (21.91%) [30]
H. officinalis Cultivated in Serbia 18 cis-pinocamphone (42.9%), pinocamphone (14.1%), germacrene-D-11-ol (5.7%), elemol (5.6%) [31]
H. officinalis Egypt 26 Cis-pinocamphone (34.00%), pinocamphone (21.27%), β-pinene (13.19%), β-phellandrene (13.10) [32]
H. officinalis Turkey 34 Cis-pinocamphone (57.27%), β-pinene (7.23%), terpinen-4-ol (7.13%), pinocarvone (6.49%) [33]
H. officinalis subsp. angustifolius Turkey 51 Pinocarvone (27.1%), β-pinene (19.0%), cis-pinocamphone (13.6%) [34]
H. officinalis subsp. officinalis L. Serbia 59 Cis-pinocamphone in f. albus (16.4%), in f. cyaneus (22.3%), in f. ruber (58.3%) [35]
H. officinalis East Lithuania 63 Pinocarvone (21.1–28.1%), cis-pinocamphone (11.5–15.9%), β-pinene (7.0–11.4%), germacrene D (3.7–5.5%), hedycaryol (4.1–4.8%) in four oils, cis-pinocamphone (16.8–33.6%) in two oils [36]
H. officinalis Russia From 31 to 37 White-flowered pinocamphone up to 44.99%, blue-flowered pinocamphone up to 20.85%, pink-flowered pinocamphone up to 45.23% [37]
H. officinalis Poland 5 Cis-pinocamphone (33.52%), pinocamphone (28.67%), β-pinene (8.12%), elemol (5.86%) [38]
H. officinalis Iran 17 pinocamphone (53.93%) [39]
H. officinalis Russia 27 Pinocamphone (63.55%) [40]
H. officinalis f. cyaneus Russia, cultivated 68 Pinocamphone (70%) [41]
H. officinalis L. subsp. angustifolius Iran 25 and 22 Purple landrace was cis-pinocamphone (55.14%), β-pinene (17.06%), pinocamphone (3.50%);
White landrace of hyssop camphor (31.85%), cis-pinocamphone (30.11%), β-pinene (12.26%), pinocamphone (6.09%)
[42]
H. officinalis ssp. officinalis India 21 Pinocamphone (49.1%), β-pinene (18.4%), cis-pinocamphone (9.7%) [43]
H. officinalis Turkey 24 Pinocarvone (29.2%), trans-pinocamphone (27.2%), β-pinene (17.6%), cis-camphone (4.7%) [44]
H. officinalis Egypt 33 Cis-pinocamphone (26.85%), β-pinene (20.43%), pinocamphone (15.97%), α-elemol (7.96%) [45]
H. officinalis India 33 cis-pinocamphone (53.34%), β-pinene (9.91%), limonene (7.19%) [46]
H. officinalis Serbia 74 Pinocamphone (41.2%) [47]
H. officinalis Iran 19 Myrtenyl acetate (74.08%), camphor (6.76%), germacrene (3.39%) [48]
H. officinalis Poland 52 Cis-pinocamphone (22.53–28.74%), pinocamphone (11.41–17.99%), β-pinene (6.69–12.01%), elemol (5.02–7.57%), germacrene D (3.14–6.98%) [49]
H. officinalis Spain 44 1,8-cineole (53%), β-pinene (16%) [50]
H. officinalis Poland 74 Cis-pinocamphone (20.05–43.02%),
pinocamphone (1.68–19.62%)
[51]
H. officinalis Poland 50 White-flowered pinocamphone (51%), pink-flowered pinocamphone (28.8%), cis-pinocamphone (21.9%) [52]
H. officinalis Bulgaria 46 Cis-pinocamphone (48.98–50.77%),
β-pinene (13.38–13.54%), pinocamphone (5.78–5.94%)
[53]
H. officinalis Iran 36 Cis-pinocamphone (38.47%), pinocamphone (13.32%), pinocarvone (5.34%) [54]
H. officinalis Cultivated in Bulgaria 55 Cis-pinocamphone (40.2%), pinocamphone (10.3%), β-pinene (14.2%) [55]
H. officinalis Egypt - White-flowered β-pinene (19.60%), pinocamphone (19.20%), camphor (16.3%) [56]
H. officinalis India 47 Cis-pinocamphone (38.1%), pinocarvone (20.3%), 1,8-cineole (12.2%) [57]
H. officinalis
var. decumbens
France 16 Linalool (49.6%), 1,8-cineole (13.3%), limonene (5.4%) [58]
H. officinalis Montenegro 45 Methyl eugenol (38.3%), limonene (37.4%), β-pinene (9.6%) [59]
H. officinalis Yugoslavia Cis-pinocamphone (46.1%) [60]
H. officinalis Spain 21 1,8-cineole (52.89%), β-pinene (16.82%) [61]
H. officinalis L. subsp. angustifolius (Bieb.) Turkey 34 Pinocarvone (36.3%), pinocamphone (19.6%), β-pinene (10.6%), 1,8-cineole (7.2%), cis-pinocamphone (5.3%) [62]
H. seravschanicus Ukraine, in culture 27 Cis-pinocamphone (61.58%) [63]
H. seravschanicus Tajikistan 87 Cis-pinocamphone (57.0–88.9%), β-pinene (0.4–6.0%), 1,8-cineole (1.8–3.6%), camphor (0.5–4.0%), spathulenol (0.1–5.0%) [64]
H. cretaceus Russia 45 Cis-pinocamphone (60%), pinene (12.78%),
myrtenyl acetate (7.17%)
[65]
H. officinalis Russia, Crym 58 Cis-pinocamphone (29.7–58.4%), pinocamphone (15.2–23.3%) [66]