abstract the essential oil isolated by hydrodistillation from the aerial parts of salvia angulata h.b.k., (lamiaceae) collected from southwestern venezuela, was analyzed by gc and gc/ms. among the 22 identified compounds, the major components were the sesquiterpenes hydrocarbons which made up 79.8% of the oil, with -caryophyllene (27.7%), germacrene d (19.5%) and bicyclogermacrene (18.3%) as the most abundant ones. oxygenated sesquiterpenes made up 14.2% of the oil, while the monoterpene fraction was only 3.3%. as far as we know, this is the first report on s. angulata essential oil.