Meeting Abstract

Publication year: 2007

Pages: 1011-1011

Journal: Planta Medica: Journal of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research

Volume number: 73

Issue number: 9

ISSN: 0032-0943

Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag

Abstract: 

Nepeta binaludensis Jamzad is a rare medicinal plant of Iran which is highly endangered by severe harvesting and unsustainable herbal collection. A research was conducted to study the ecobiological background, ethnomedicinal use and chemical properties of this species in the wild habitats during the years 2003 and 2004, to understand their conservation biology as well as to predict their behavior under systematic cultivation. Results indicated that this species grows in north-facing slopes at altitudes of 2300 to 2700m, mean annual rainfall ranging from 350–370mm and mean annual temperature of 6–7 ^°C. This plant grows on light soils with a neutral pH and poor in mineral content. Height of individual plants varies from 46 to 52cm with a crown diameter of 39 to 42cm, a plant density of nearly 4 pl.m^-2 and a dry matter of 23 to 72g.m^-2. Plant density, biomass, plant height, crown diameter and also soil coverage of this species decreased by increasing slope inclination. There was no relationship between essential oil content, slope and altitude. The whole growing period of this species is about 153 days being equivalent to 1978.9 GDD. Results showed that the aerial parts of N. Binaludensis are used mostly by local people to treat digestive disorders, nervous disorders and depression. Essential oils of the aerial parts of plants collected from two regions, Dowlat Abad and Freizi, were slightly yellow and the yields were 0.5%(v/w) in both regions. Eighteen components representing 95.2% and 97.5% of the total oils of these regions were identified, respectively. The major constituent of the oxygenated monoterpene-rich oils was 1,8 Cineole (77.8% and 73.2% respectively).

Harvard Citation style: Nadjafi, F., Koocheki, A., Rezvani, M., Honermeier, B. and Asili, J. (2007) Autecology, ethnomedicinal and phytochernical studies of Nepeta binaludensis Jamzad, a highly endangered medicinal plant of Iran, Planta Medica: Journal of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, 73(9), p. 1011

APA Citation style: Nadjafi, F., Koocheki, A., Rezvani, M., Honermeier, B., & Asili, J. (2007). Autecology, ethnomedicinal and phytochernical studies of Nepeta binaludensis Jamzad, a highly endangered medicinal plant of Iran. Planta Medica: Journal of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research. 73(9), 1011.