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Taxon:
Cymbopogon flexuosus
(Nees) Will. Watson
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Cymbopogon
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Anthristiriinae
Nomen number:
12804
Place of publication:
E. T. Atkinson, Gaz. N.-W. Prov. India 10:392. 1882
Comment:
authorship verified from original literature (by K. Gandhi, pers. comm.)
Verified:
02/08/2006
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Andropogon flexuosus
Nees
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Reference(s)
Bellenot, D.
2009. pers. comm.
Note:
re. French common names
Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
1950. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. 2:414-416.
Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
1986-1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cymbopogon+flexuosus&quantity=1
Hara, H. et al.
1978-1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
Lazarides, M.
1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Nath, S. C. et al.
2002. Comparison of volatile inflorescence oils and taxonomy of certain
Cymbopogon
taxa described as
Cymbopogon flexuosus
(Nees ex Steud.) Wats. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 30:151-162.
Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds.
1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:99-102.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Personal Care Products Council.
INCI
URL:
http://www.personalcarecouncil.org/public/what-inci
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Pullaiah, T. et al.
1997-1998. Flora of Andhra Pradesh (India).
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Shukla, U.
1996. Grasses of north-eastern India
Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair.
1991. Flora of Kerala - grasses.
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 167.
Common names
English
Cochin lemongrass –
Reference(s)
East Indian lemongrass –
Reference(s)
lemongrass –
Reference(s)
Malabar grass –
Reference(s)
Malabar lemongrass –
Reference(s)
French
herbe de Malabar –
Reference(s)
lemongrass –
Reference(s)
verveine des Indes –
Reference(s)
German
Malabargras –
Reference(s)
ostindisches Lemongras –
Reference(s)
Spanish
pasto de Malabar –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Yunnan Sheng
s.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Andhra Pradesh
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Assam
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Bihar
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Karnataka
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Kerala
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Meghalaya
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Nagaland
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Tamil Nadu
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
West Bengal
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Nepal
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Myanmar
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Thailand
2
Cultivated
also cult.
Native
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
[Yunnan Sheng (s.)]
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
[Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Karnataka],
Nepal
INDO-CHINA:
Myanmar
,
Thailand
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Food additives
flavoring
Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds.
1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:99-102.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Food additives
flavoring
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
Materials
essential oils
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 167.
Materials
lipids
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Materials
lipids
for perfuming soaps
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 167.
Medicines
folklore
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Name
References