The oil from the spores of commercial Lycopodium, mainly L. complanatum, contains cis-9,10-epoxyoctadecanoic acid (2%), (+)-8-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid (7%), and (±)-threo-9,10-dihydroxyoctadecanoic acid (4%). Smaller amounts of 8-oxohexadecanoic acid and an epoxyhexadecanoic acid also seem to be present.
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A. P. Tulloch (1965) studied this question.