By Ali Sonboli, Peyman Salehi and Masoud Mohammadi Vala

Abstract: Abstract: The essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation from the aerial flowering parts of Fuernrohria setifolia C. Koch was analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twenty-eight compounds were identified corresponding to 97.6% of the total oil. Monoterpene hydrocarbons (69.1%) constituted the principal fraction of the oil with limonene (68.5%) as the major component. Other main compounds were carvone (10.2%) and germacrene D (10.9%). Key Word Index: Fuernrohria setifolia, Umbelliferae, essential oil composition, limonene, carvone, germacrene D.

Plant Name
Fuernrohria setifolia C. Koch, (Syn.: Coriandrum setifolium K. Pol.) Umbelliferae (1,2)

Source
The aerial parts of the plant were collected in July 11, 2003 from Takab, Takht-e Soleyman road towards Dandy, between Tazehkand and Amirabad villages, western Azarbaijan Province, Iran at an altitude of 2433 m. This species grows wild in Iran and it has been reported as a new record for flora of Iran by Mozaffarian (2). A voucher specimen (MP-881) of plant was deposited in the Herbarium of Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute.

Plant Part
The aerial parts of the plant during flowering stage (100 g) were air-dried at ambient temperature and hydrodistilled for 3 h using a Clevenger-type apparatus.

Previous Work
As far as our literature survey could ascertain, F. setifolia has not been the subject of any previous phytochemical investigation.