L. binervosum flower samples were mixed (1:20 w/v) with a 1:1 v/v methanol:water solution and heated for 30 min in a water bath at 50 °C. Subsequently, they were sonicated for 5 min in pulse mode with a 1 min stop for each 2.5 min, using a Hielscher Ultrasonics (Teltow, Germany) probe-type ultrasonicator (model UIP1000hdT; 1000 W, 20 kHz). The solution was subjected to centrifugation at 9000 rpm for 15 min, and the supernatant was filtered through Whatman No. 1 paper. Aliquots were lyophilized for CHNS and FTIR analyses. The extraction procedure for leaf samples was identical.
Each extraction procedure was replicated three times (on subsamples of the flower and leaf composite samples), and the resulting hydromethanolic extracts were mixed to obtain the samples for GC‒MS analysis.