Synonyms
- Michelia pilifera Bakh. f.,
- Michelia velutina auct. non DC.
Vernacular names
- Orange chempaka (En)
- Indonesia: cempaka kuning (general), capaka (Halmahera), cempaka (Javanese)
- Malaysia: champaka (Sabah), chempaka, chempaka merah (Peninsular)
- Philippines: champaca (general)
- Burma (Myanmar): mawk-sam-lung
- Laos: cham pa
- Thailand: champa (general), champa khao, champa pa (peninsular)
- Vietnam: ngọc lan.
Distribution
From India and Burma (Myanmar) to Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands; possibly native only to India, now commonly cultivated throughout the tropics.
Composition of essential-oil of Flower absolute
- 25.0% 2-phenylethanol
- 13.0% methyl linoleate
- 4.5% methyl anthranilate
- 4.0% benzyl acetate
- 3.4% β-lonone
- 3.0% methyl palmitate
- 2.9% indole
- 2.0% linalool
- 2.0% 2-phenylethyl acetate
- 2.0% oximes of ionones
- 1.6% α-farnesene
- 1.6% α-ionone
- 1.4% dehydro-β-ionone
- 1.3% phenylacetonitrile
- 1.1% dehydro β-ionol
- 1.0% methyl benzoate
- 0.8% benzyl alcohol
- 0.6% methyl cis-(Z)-jasmonate
- 0.5% phenylacetaldoxime
- 0.3% β-ionol
- 0.2% eugenol
- 0.2% cis-linalool oxide (6) (pyranoid)
- 0.1% photoisomer of β-ionone
- 72.5% total
Source: Kaiser, 1989.
Authors
U.A. Dasuki