Composition of the essential oil of Stachys bombycina from Turkey

Abstract

The genus Stachys L. contains about 285 species and is considered to be one of largest genera of the Lamiaceae [1], but information about its chemistry is limited. It is a subcosmopolitan genus, most diverse in the warm-temperate regions of the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia and with secondary centers in North and South America and southern Africa [2]. There are two main centers of diversity in terms of species number. One is in the South and East Anatolia, Caucasus, Northwestern Iran and Northern Iraq, and the other is on the Balkan Peninsula