Abstract

The scarcity of natural populations of Anibarosaeodora in Brazil is well known and it has been attributed to the over-exploitation for extraction of its trunk wood essential oil for perfumery industry The leaves of cultivated trees of this species could be a new source for future sustainable exploitation for the same purpose Leaf oils from 35 trees of A rosaeodora paurosa obtained by hydrodistillation were analyzed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry High variation in yields 1 15 to 4 21 and in linalool content 38 48 to 71 05 were observed Additionally leaf oils of A parviflora macacaporanga commonly confused as A rosaeodorawere analized Linalool was the major compound in A parviflora essential oils but in considerable smaller amount 21 30 and 12 64 when compared to A rosaeodora Anibaparviflora oils were different from those of A rosaeodora showing a high amount of - phellandrene 21 06 and 23 60 and lacking the presence of - - and -eudesmol and 7- epi- - and 10-epi- -eudesmol