Chemodiversity of the Essential Oil from Leaves of Abies nebrodensis (Lojac.) Mattei

Abstract

Abies nebrodensis (Lojac.) Mattei (Pinaceae) is a species occurring in a very small population only in a restricted area of Sicily. Its taxonomic classification as different species has been object of discussion. In this work the chemical composition of the essential oil from the leaves is presented for the first time and compared to the essential oils from other euroasiatic species reported in literature. Peculiar characteristics of the essential oil of A. nebrodensis are highlighted.

Typification of the name Abies nebrodensis (Pinaceae)

“…Morphologically A. nebrodensis differs from the other species of Mediterranean firs by the morphological characters of its young twigs, leaves and female cones (see Raimondo & al., 1990 for details). This differentiation has been supported by studies based on allozymes (Ducci & al., 1999), microsatellite markers of cpDNA (Parducci & al., 2001) and leaf essential oils (Schicchi & al., 2017).…”