Fatty Acid Composition of Sideritis Species

Seed oils of 15Sideritisspecies collected from different regions in Turkey(S. athoa, S. brevidens, S. caesarea, S. condensata, S. congesta, S. dichotoma, S. erythrantha var. cedretorum, S. germanicopolitana ssp. germanicopolitana, S. hololeuca, S. lanata, S. libanotica ssp. violascens, S. lycia, S. niveotomentosa, S. perfoliata, S. phrygia, S. pisidica)were obtained by a Soxhlet apparatus using hexane. The oil yields were found to be between 5.6-36.3%. Fatty acids in the oils were converted to methyl esters and their compositions were determined by GC/MS. The main fatty acid components of the oils from all the species are linoleic (45.4-64.0%), oleic (12.3-26.5%), 6-octadecynoic (4.5-26.8%), palmitic (0.3-9.4%), and linolenic (0.8-2.0%) acids.