ESSENTIAL OILS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS CONTAINING MONOCYCLIC MONOTERPENES

All flowering plants common on earth belong to 300 families, of which 2500 species of 87 families have essential oils. In the flora of the CIS countries, there are more than 1100 species of essential oil plants belonging to 77 families. In Uzbekistan, 607 species of essential oil plants are known, they belong to 261 genera and 56 families. The mint family (Lamiaceae) ranks third among the Sympetalae in terms of size and species diversity after Asteraceae and Rubiaceae. This family contains about 170 genera and about 3400 species on Earth.