“…It is ecologically diverse, ranging from aquatic to dry steppe habitats and from sea level to high alpine regions (Albach, Jensen, Özgökce, & Grayer, 2005a). The phytochemistry of the genus was previously studied in some species surveyed for their iridoid (Jensen, Albach, Ohno, & Grayer, 2005;Harput, Genc, Khan, & Saracoglu, 2011) and phenylethanoid (Taskova, Gotfredsen & Jensen, 2006;Harput et al, 2011) derivatives and flavonoid glycosides (Taskova, Kokubin, Ryan, Gamock-Jones, & Jensen, 2010;Saracoglu, Varel, Harput & Nagatsu, 2004a;Albach, Grayer, Kite, Jensen, 2005b;Taskova, Kokubun, Grayer, Ryan, & Garnock-Jones, 2008;Taskova et al, 2010;Harput et al, 2011). Iridoid derivatives were mainly found as glucosides, such as aucubin, catalpol (esterified with benzoic and cinnamic acid), mussaenoside and mussaenosidic acid esters (Saracoglu et al, 2004a).…”