Lemongrass,also known as Capim-cidrao,Fever Tea,Melissa Grass,and Sereh,is native to tropical Southeast Asia.

Lemongrass Main constituents and Phytochemicals.

Lemon grass Extract INCI Name Cymbopogon Schoenanthus Extract CAS 89998-16-3 EINECS ELINCS No 289-754-1 Lemongrass stalk extract Lemongrass Extract Cymbopogon citrates Citronella extract Squinant extract photo picture image The essential oil of lemon grass (0.2 to 0.5%, "West Indian lemon grass oil") consists mainly of citral. Citral is a mixture of two stereoisomeric monterpene aldehydes; in lemon grass oil, the trans isomer geranial (40 to 62%) dominates over the cis isomer neral (25 to 38%). Further terpenoids in lemon grass oil are nerol, limonene, linalool and beta-caryphyllene. The content of myrcene is low, but still enough to make the oil susceptible to oxidative polymerization.

East Indian lemon grass oil is distilled from a related species, C. flexuosus. It consists of alcohols (20 to 30% citronellol, geraniol) and aldehydes (15% geranial, 10% neral, 5% citronellal). This species is dominantly used in the perfume industry as it contains less myrcene and, therefore, has a longer shelf life.

Two further species have considerable relevance for the perfume industry: The so-called palmarosa oil is distilled from Cymbopogon martini (Roxb.) J.F. Watson var. martini (native to India, cultivated also in Jawa) and contains mainly geraniol (75%) and geranyl acetate (12%). Also worth mentioning is citronella grass (Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt) which also stems from India, but is today grown throughout the tropics; its main constituents are citronellal (35%), geraniol (25%) and citronellol (10%) plus minor amounts of geranyl acetate (5%).

Active Constituents:Stereoisomeric monterpene aldehydes; trans isomer geranial (40-62%), cis isomer neral (25-38%), nerol, limonene, linalool, beta-caryphyllene, C. flexuosus, alcohols (20-30% cotronellol, geranoil), aldehydes (15% geranial, 10% neral, 5% citronellal), myrecene, dipentene, , nerol, citronellol, farnesol, linalooletc, geraniol, Citral a, Citral b, furfural, isovaleraidehyde, citronellal, decylaldehyde, farnesal, diacetyl, methyl heptenone.

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1.Lemongrass,also known as Capim-cidrao,Fever Tea,Melissa Grass,and Sereh,is native to tropical Southeast Asia.

last edit date:10th,Mar.2010.

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Name:Lemon grass Extract
Serie No:P084
Specifications:10:1.20:1.TLC
INCI Name:CYMBOPOGON SCHOENANTHUS EXTRACT
EINECS/ELINCS No.:289-754-1
CAS:89998-16-3
Chem/IUPAC Name:Cymbopogon Schoenanthus Extract is an extract of the lemongrass, from Cymbopogon schoenanthus, Gramineae

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