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Taxon:  Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult.



Summary
Genus:
Cymbopogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
12808
Place of publication:
Mant. 2:458. 1824
Verified:
02/09/2006 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult. subsp. jwarancusa (0 active accession[s])
Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult. subsp. olivieri (Boiss.) Soenarko (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  3. Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. 1984
  4. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  5. Ghazanfar, S. A. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. 1992
  6. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  7. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 Note: "iwarancusa"
  8. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  9. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  10. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Pullaiah, T. et al. Flora of Andhra Pradesh (India). 1997-1998
  13. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  14. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
  15. Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. Flora of Kerala - grasses. 1991
  16. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966- Note: mentions
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952- Note: mentions
  18. Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2). Flora Madhya Pradesh. 1993-
  19. Wood, J. R. I. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
Common names
English
iwarancusa grass –
Karnkusa grass –
khavi grass –
India
jwarancusa –
Portuguese (Brazil)
capim-cheiroso-da-India –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaYemenSocotra 
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaOman n.
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaSichuans.w.
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaXizang 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIraq n.e.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAndhra Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaArunachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAssam 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaBihar 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaGujarat 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHimachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaJammu and Kashmir 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMadhya Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMaharashtra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaOrissa 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaPunjab 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTamil Nadu 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaUttar Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaWest Bengal 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanBaluchistan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanNorth-West Frontier 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanPunjab 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanSind 
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Yemen [Socotra]
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman (n.), Yemen
  • CHINA: China [Sichuan (s.w.), Xizang]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq (n.e.)
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India [Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh], Nepal, Pakistan [Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind, North-West Frontier]
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
essential oils (fide Mansf Ency) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; F Iraq) –


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