chemical composition and biological activities of the essential oil from calamintha nepeta plants from the wild in southern italy. | the chemical composition of the essential oil from aerial parts of calamintha nepeta (l.) savi, collected in the campania region, was obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gc and gc-ms. in all, 42 compounds were identified. the oil was characterized by a prevalence of the sesquiterpenic fraction (80.8%). the main components were 1,10-di-epi-cubenol (18.5%), allo-aromadendrene epoxide (11.4%) and cadalene (5.7%). the essential oil was evaluated for its in vitro potential phytotoxic activi ... | 2013 | 23472480 |