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Taxon:  Cymbopogon martini (Roxb.) Will. Watson



Summary
Genus:
Cymbopogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
12809
Place of publication:
E. T. Atkinson, Gaz. N.-W. Prov. India 10:392. 1882
Comment:
  • for spelling see Melbourne ICN Art. 41, Ex. 4 & Melbourne ICN Rec. 60C.2
  • 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.

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Reference(s)
  1. 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. Note: "martinii"
  2. Bellenot, D. 2009. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
  3. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960 Note: "martinii"
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  5. Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. 1984
  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 2:416-418.
  7. 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. 2000- 2:324-325.
  8. Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. 1986-1987
  9. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1994. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980- 8:130. Note: mentions as introduced species; "martinii"
  10. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  11. Greuter, W. et al., eds. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). 2000 Art. 32.4, Ex. 6. http://www.bgbm.org/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm
  12. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  13. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 Note: "martinii"
  14. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980 Note: "martinii"
  15. 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
  16. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  17. Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 19:102-106. http://proseanet.org
  18. 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
  19. Pullaiah, T. et al. Flora of Andhra Pradesh (India). 1997-1998
  20. Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991 Note: "martinii"
  21. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 Note: "martinii"
  22. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
  23. Sreekumar, P. V. & V. J. Nair. Flora of Kerala - grasses. 1991
  24. Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968 167.
  25. Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2). Flora Madhya Pradesh. 1993-
  26. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
ginger grass –
motia grass –
rosha grass –
rusa grass –
sofia grass –
French
gingergrass –
palmarosa –
German
Gingergras –
Palmarosa –
Palmarosagras –
India
motiya –
rosha –
rusha –
sofiya –
Spanish
palmarosa –
Transcribed Chinese
lu sha xiang mao –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAndhra Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaArunachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaBihar 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaGujarat 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHimachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaJammu and Kashmir 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKarnataka 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKerala 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMadhya Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMaharashtra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMeghalaya 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaOrissa 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTamil Nadu 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaUttar Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaWest Bengal 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanBaluchistan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanNorth-West Frontier 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanPunjab 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistanSind 
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateChinaChina s.
Native
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa, 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
Materials
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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