Essential Oil Composition of Aerial Parts of Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam. from Western of Shiraz, Iran

AbstractZiziphora clinopodioides Lam. is medicinal and aromatic plant, belonging to the Lamiaceae family. The chemical composition of the essential oils from aerial parts of Z. clinopodioides were extracted using hydrodistillation method and analysed using GC and GC-MS. Forty nine compounds were identified in the essential oils (EOs) of aerial parts of Z. clinopodioides. The main chemical compositions were pulegone (27.38%), iso-menthone (10.12%), iso-menthol (9.92%), menthyl acetate (9.61%), p-menth-3-en-8-ol (7.60%), neo iso- menthol (5.51%), limonene (4.45%), piperitenone (4.17%), 1,8-cineole (3.50%), piperitone (2.43%), spathulenol (1.60%), β-pinene (1.33%), borneol (1.15%), germacrene D (1.13%) and β-bourbonene (1.06%). This medicine plant has high potential for use in medicine, food and perfumery industries with high contents of pulegone, iso- menthone, neo iso-menthol, and p-menth-3-en-8-ol and menthyl acetate.