Clinopodium congestum
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| Internal ID | UUID64403215b825f175945931 |
| Scientific name | Clinopodium congestum |
| Authority | Kuntze |
| First published in | Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 515 (1891) |
General Uses Top
Suggest a correction!Common products:
The foliage is processed by steam distillation to yield essential oil used in flavor–fragrance applications in East Africa. Seed literature is sparse; documented products are not evident.
Fragrance and cosmetics:
The essential oil is employed as a fragrance raw material, contributing to aromatic profiles in soaps, detergents, and toiletry bases. Fragrance houses also use it in compounded blends to impart herbaceous–minty notes in perfumes and cosmetic bases. The principal constituents are piperitenone oxide, menthol, menthone, limonene, and pulegone, which confer characteristic minty–camphoraceous odor notes and typical solvent power of terpenoid essential oils.
Properties relevant to use:
As an essential oil, the material is volatile, lipophilic, and contains monoterpene and oxygenated monoterpene fractions that enable olfactory impact and solvent action in fragrance compounding. Seasonal and regional variation in yield (≈0.4–0.8% for aerial parts) and constituent ratios (e.g., piperitenone oxide often dominant in highland chemotypes; menthol/menthone in others) are reported and influence processing and application choice.
Sustainability and sourcing:
Commercial oil originates from wild-harvested or semi-cultivated material in Ethiopia and adjacent regions. Bulk supply appears variable and seasonally dependent; commercial practice follows standard essential-oil extractive norms (aerial parts harvested at flowering, steam distillation, inert atmospheric storage) without taxon-specific regulatory codes.
Synonyms Top
| Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
|---|---|---|
| Micromeria congesta | Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss. | Fl. Orient. 4: 575 (1879) |
| Micromeria shepardii | Post | Bull. Herb. Boissier 1: 405 (1893) |
| Nepeta shepardii | Post | J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 24: 239 (1888) |
| Satureja congesta | Briq. | Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 301 (1896) |
| Satureja shepardii | (Post) Greuter & Burdet | Willdenowia 14: 305 (1984 publ. 1985) |
Germination/Propagation Top
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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top
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- Doubtful data
- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
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Asia-temperate click to expand
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Western Asia
- Turkey
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Western Asia
Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
|---|---|
| World Flora Online | wfo-0000891267 |
| Tropicos | 100169621 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:445752-1 |
| The Plant List | kew-43497 |
| Open Tree Of Life | 6082124 |
| Observations.org | 450669 |
| IPNI | 445752-1 |
| GBIF | 3887703 |
| Elurikkus | 433951 |
Genomes (via NCBI) Top
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Scientific Literature Top
Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
| Title | Authors | Publication | Released | IDs | ||
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| Composition of the Essential Oil of<i>Micromeria congesta</i> | N. Kirimer, T. Özek, K. H.C. Baser | Informa UK Limited | 24-Apr-2012 |
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Phytochemical Profile Top
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Collections Top
| In private collections | 0 |
| In public collections | 0 |