Chemodiversity essential oil from three species of (Euphorbiaceae) and assessment of antimicrobial potential.

The genus is known for its various biological properties, which inspired this study to investigate the anti-bacterial pro-perties and chemodiversity of the essential oils of three Croton species: , , and . The essential oils were characterised by gas chromatography (GC-MS) and demonstrated anti-bacterial activity against and using the disc diffusion method. The essential oil composition of showed bicyclogermacrene (16.