Volatile leaf oils of some South‐western and Southern Australian species of the genus Eucalyptus part VI—subgenus symphyomyrtus, section adnataria

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The volatile leaf oils of <jats:italic>Eucalyptus populnea</jats:italic> F. Muell., <jats:italic>E. sparsa</jats:italic> Boomsma, <jats:italic>E. largflorens</jats:italic> F. Muell., <jats:italic>E. cuprea</jats:italic> Brooker &amp; Hopper, <jats:italic>E. absita</jats:italic> Grayling &amp; Brooker, <jats:italic>E. behriana</jats:italic> F. Muell., <jats:italic>E. intertexta</jats:italic> R.T. Baker, <jats:italic>E. ochrophloia</jats:italic> F. Muell., <jats:italic>E. lansdowneana</jats:italic> F. Muell. &amp; J. E. Brown subsp. <jats:italic>lansdowneana, E. lansdowneana</jats:italic> F. Muell. &amp; J.E. Brown subsp. <jats:italic>albopurpurea</jats:italic> Boomsma, <jats:italic>E. porosa</jats:italic> F. Muell, ex. Miq., <jats:italic>E. odorata</jats:italic> Behr, <jats:italic>E. microcarpa</jats:italic> (Maiden) Maiden, E. <jats:italic>‘desquamata’</jats:italic> Brooker, <jats:italic>E. viridis</jats:italic> R.T. Baker, <jats:italic>E. melanophloia</jats:italic> F. Muell., <jats:italic>E. fasciculosa</jats:italic> F. Muell., E. <jats:italic>leucoxylon</jats:italic> F. Muell. subsp. <jats:italic>leucoxylon</jats:italic> and E. <jats:italic>leucoxylon</jats:italic> F. Muell. subsp. <jats:italic>petiolaris</jats:italic> Boland, isolated by vacuum distillation, were analysed by GC‐MS and by GC. All species contained α‐pinene (1‐26%), 1,8‐cineole (1‐68%),<jats:italic>p</jats:italic>‐cymene (0.2‐11%), aromadendrene (1‐36%) as principal leaf oil components.