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Summary: 40 Phytologia (April 2009) 91(1)
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND SYSTEMATICS OF
JUNIPERUS PHOENICEA L. FROM MADEIRA AND THE
CANARY ISLANDS: ANALYSES OF LEAF VOLATILE OILS
Robert P. Adams
Biology Department, Baylor University, Box 727, Gruver, TX, 79040
Beatriz Rumeu and Manuel Nogales
Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group (IPNA-CSIC), 38206 La
Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
and
Susana S. Fontinha
Parque Natural da Madeira, CEM-UMa, Caminho do Meio 9064-512,
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
ABSTRACT
All of the oils of J. phoenicea from the Canary Islands and
Madeira were very similar. The volatile leaf oils were dominated by -
pinene (57.3 - 76%) as was the oil from Morocco (65.4%). This is
higher than in J. p. var. phoenicea, Spain (41.2%) or var. turbinata,
Spain, (25.8%). The Madeira and Canary Island oils had moderate
amounts of -phellandrene (0.5 - 8.0%), myrcene (2.3 - 3.3%), -
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