The chemical composition of the aerial parts' essential oil of (L.f.) Chaz. growing wild in Algeria.

The genus (Plumbaginaceae) includes several species of perennial herbs and shrubs belonging to a particular type of halophytes, known as 'recretohalophytes'. species are widely distributed in the Mediterranean region, mainly in the North-Eastern and Southern countries and several bioactivities have been well documented. In the present study, the chemical composition of the essential oil (EO) of the aerial parts of (L.f.) Chaz., a species never chemically previously studied and collected in Algeria, which grows in South Spain, North Africa, and SW Asia, was analysed using GC-MS. The main constituents of the EO were monoterpenes involving eucalyptol (14.21%), -pinene (8.62%), -myrcene (8.18%). Among the sesquiterpene compounds -caryophyllene (8.94%) was the major one. The chemical profile of the EO presented here was compared with the EOs of previously investigated taxa. Furthermore, a complete literature review on the ethno-pharmacological uses of species was performed.