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Taxon:  Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf



Summary
Genus:
Cymbopogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
12797
Place of publication:
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1906:357. 1906
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 citratus DC.

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Reference(s)
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  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. 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. 1989 90.
  4. Bellenot, D. 2009. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
  5. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960 Note: lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf
  6. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1950. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi. 1948-1976 2:412-414.
  7. Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. 1986-1987
  8. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1994. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980- 8:130. Note: lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf
  9. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  10. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  11. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
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  13. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cymbopogon+citratus&quantity=1
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  16. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  17. Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. 2003- Note: cultivated, as Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf
  18. Hollyman, K. J. et al. 1993. Les noms français des plantes calédoniennes : étude lexicographique et lexicologique. 222 pp. Note: Didier, Paris
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  20. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980 Note: lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf
  21. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
  22. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976 Note: lists as C. citratus (DC. ex Nees) Stapf
  23. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
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  26. Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 19:95-98. Note: lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf
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  31. Soukup, J. 1971. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. Lima. 106-107. Note: re. Spanish (Peru) common name
  32. Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365-380. http://www.checklist.org.br/
  33. Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968 167. Note: lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf
  34. Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113-123.
  35. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  36. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:167.
Common names
English
lemongrass –
West Indian lemongrass –
French
citronelle –
citronnelle –
herbe citron –
lemongrass –
verveine des Indes –
German
Lemongras –
westindisches Zitronengras –
Zitronengras –
Portuguese
erva-cidreira –
Portuguese (Brazil)
cana-cidreira –
cana-limão –
capim-cidró –
capim-santo –
patchuli-falso –
Spanish
pasto limón –
zacate dete –
zacate limón –
Spanish (Costa Rica)
sontol –
Spanish (Peru)
yerba luisa –
Swedish
citrongräs –
Distribution
Cultivated
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Yunnan, Zhejiang]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • CARIBBEAN: Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (U.S.) [St. Thomas, St. Croix]
  • MESOAMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Naturalized
Southern America
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile
Other (origin unknown)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Materials
essential oils (used as a masking fragrance fide Pl Res SEAs 19:98. 1999) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Weed
(fide Weed CRCAustralia 145. 2007) –


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