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Taxon:
Cymbopogon martini
(Roxb.) Will. Watson
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Cymbopogon
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Subtribe:
Anthristiriinae
Nomen number:
12809
Place of publication:
E. T. Atkinson, Gaz. N.-W. Prov. India 10:392. 1882
Comment:
for spelling see
Shenzhen ICN
41, Ex. 5 and Shenzhen ICN Rec. 60C.1
authorship verified from original literature (by K. Gandhi, pers. comm.)
Verified:
11/28/2000
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 martini
Roxb.
No images
Reference(s)
Anjaria, J. V.
1989. Herbal Drugs: Potential for industry and cash. In: G. E. Wickens et al., New crops for food and industry. New crops for food and industry 90.
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
Bellenot, D.
2009. pers. comm.
Note:
re. French common names
Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa.
1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
1950. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. 2:416-418.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
2001. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. First supplementary series (raw materials). New Delhi 2:324-325.
Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
1986-1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1994. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 8:130.
Note:
mentions as introduced species; lists as "
martinii
"
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
Greuter, W. et al., eds.
2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code) Art. 32.4, Ex. 6.
URL:
http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm
Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
URL:
http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
Lazarides, M.
1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970-. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds.
1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:102-106.
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
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
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.
Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2).
1993-. Flora Madhya Pradesh.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
ginger grass –
Reference(s)
motia grass –
Reference(s)
rosha grass –
Reference(s)
rusa grass –
Reference(s)
sofia grass –
Reference(s)
French
gingergrass –
Reference(s)
palmarosa –
Reference(s)
German
Gingergras –
Reference(s)
Palmarosa –
Reference(s)
Palmarosagras –
Reference(s)
India
motiya –
Reference(s)
rosha –
Reference(s)
rusha –
Reference(s)
sofiya –
Reference(s)
Spanish
palmarosa –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
lu sha xiang mao –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Andhra Pradesh
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Arunachal Pradesh
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Bihar
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Gujarat
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Himachal Pradesh
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Jammu and Kashmir
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Karnataka
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Kerala
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Madhya Pradesh
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Maharashtra
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Meghalaya
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Odisha
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Tamil Nadu
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Uttar Pradesh
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
West Bengal
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Pakistan
Baluchistan
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Pakistan
North-West Frontier
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Pakistan
Punjab
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Pakistan
Sind
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Indonesia
4
Naturalized
Asia-Temperate
China
China
s.
Native
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
[Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh],
Pakistan
[Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind, North-West Frontier]
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
MALESIA:
Indonesia
Naturalized
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
(s.)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Materials
essential oils
Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 167.
Materials
essential oils
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Note:
lists as "
martinii
"
Materials
essential oils
used in perfumery, source of palmarosa oil
Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds.
1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:102-106.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
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