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. 2022 Sep 27;11(19):2536. doi: 10.3390/plants11192536

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of essential oils and percentages of main chemical compounds of chemotypes (carvacrol, thymol, geraniol, linalool, α-terpinyl acetate) and their precursors and biogenetically related compounds in distinguished clusters of Thymus pulegioides habitats and habitats no. 11, no. 34, no. 39, no. 99, no. 100 and no. 106.

Cluster or Habitat Number. Amount of Essential Oil, % Carvacrol, % Thymol, % p-Cymene, % γ-Terpinene, % Carvacrol Methyl Ether, % Thymol Methyl
Ether, %
Geraniol, % Geranial, % Nerol, % Neral, % Linalool % α-Terpinyl
Acetate, %
Cluster 1′
(N = 34)
Mean 0.55 11.24 1.55 4.94 8.86 2.04 0.37 18.56 3.09 9.92 8.63 2.05 4.94
SD 0.21 5.51 2.46 3.85 6.36 0.99 0.51 8.90 1.44 5.40 6.18 4.94 2.01
Min 0.23 0.00 0.00 0.39 0.00 0.12 0.00 3.48 0.32 0.88 0.65 0.00 0.00
Max 1.21 24.28 10.28 12.60 23.85 3.67 2.02 39.87 6.57 20.57 34.92 22.94 9.84
CV, % 38 49 159 78 72 49 138 48 47 54 72 241 41
Cluster 2′
(N = 17)
Mean 0.64 13.38 12.10 17.61 16.59 4.42 3.19 2.39 0.40 1.43 1.02 0.36 0.27
SD 0.12 4.12 7.48 7.27 6.59 1.55 1.33 2.85 0.46 1.73 1.35 0.10 0.53
Min 0.83 7.09 4.50 5.20 0.81 2.23 1.48 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.16 0.00
Max 0.65 21.31 31.00 29.55 30.64 6.50 5.79 10.04 1.45 5.66 4.23 0.51 1.84
CV, % 19 31 62 41 40 35 42 119 115 121 132 28 196
Cluster 3′
(N = 45)
Mean 0.68 26.11 2.09 9.44 23.78 3.89 0.55 1.89 0.29 0.75 0.56 0.56 0.07
SD 0.22 8.75 2.96 4.41 6.40 1.99 0.63 2.21 0.40 1.13 0.90 0.75 0.24
Min 0.23 12.10 0.00 1.23 11.96 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Max 1.32 48.00 11.11 20.00 42.60 9.06 2.21 7.80 1.40 5.29 4.16 4.41 1.35
CV, % 32 34 142 47 27 51 115 117 138 151 161 134 343
Cluster 4′
(N = 28)
Mean 0.57 17.89 1.56 20.66 17.49 6.25 0.54 2.94 0.72 2.72 2.06 0.35 0.34
SD 0.22 5.38 1.72 7.17 5.96 1.40 0.51 2.66 0.60 2.59 1.97 0.22 1.01
Min 0.20 8.19 0.00 5.73 4.40 3.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.00
Max 1.03 27.10 6.36 38.49 29.47 9.17 2.27 10.04 1.88 9.34 7.18 1.23 4.33
CV, % 39 30 111 35 34 22 94 90 83 95 96 63 297
Habitat no. 11 Amount 0.39 13.58 2.38 20.99 11.68 6.94 1.46 1.67 0.17 0.65 0.09 14.25 2.34
Habitat no. 34 Amount 1.02 5.65 1.32 6.82 5.87 1.72 0.40 2.92 0.56 1.87 1.43 0.35 43.56
Habitat no. 39 Amount 0.53 5.65 0.00 20.70 6.44 5.77 0.05 2.08 0.12 0.07 0.00 6.51 30.77
Habitat no. 99 Amount 0.54 0.06 0.00 0.14 0.48 0.04 0.02 12.35 1.12 3.52 2.81 0.29 57.50
Habitat no. 106 Amount 0.77 6.39 0.00 5.38 5.85 1.88 0.53 6.36 1.32 4.78 3.87 40.37 3.99
Habitat no. 100 Amount 0.53 3.48 0.27 1.31 1.57 0.58 0.00 4.01 0.38 1.01 0.90 57.75 6.01