Volatile components of the leaves, fruits and seeds of wampee [ Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeels

Abstract

The volatile components of fruits, seeds and leaves from [ Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeel], obtained through headspace sampler, were analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The sesquiterpene fraction (28%) was the major component in the leaf. Monoterpene (76–98%) was the dominant terpene in flesh, skin and seed and sabinene was the main component in leaf (14.9%), flesh (50.6%), skin (69.1%) and seed (83.6%). Other major components of wampee leaf were β-bisabolene (9.9%), β-caryophyllene (7.7%) and α-Zingiberene (6.5%); in the flesh, 3-cyclohexen-1-ol (15%), cyclohexene (6.5%), 1,4 cyclohexadiene (6.2%) and α-phellandrere (5%); in the skin, α-phellandrene (10.6%) and α-pinene (9.4%) and isosativene (1.4%); and in the seed, α-pinene (4.3%), α-phellandrene (3.0%), and myrcene (2.9%).