Taxon: Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf

Common names:

• lemongrass   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  
• West Indian lemongrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• citronelle   (Source: Hollyman et al. 1993) – French
  
• citronnelle   (Source: Hollyman et al. 1993) – French
  
• herbe citron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• lemongrass   (Source: D. Bellenot, p.c.) – French
  
• verveine des Indes   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Lemongras   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  
• westindisches Zitronengras   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Zitronengras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• erva-cidreira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cana-cidreira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cana-limão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-cidró   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-santo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• patchuli-falso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pasto limón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zacate dete   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zacate limón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sontol   (Source: Man CostaR ) – Spanish (Costa Rica)
  
• yerba luisa   (Source: Soukup 1971) – Spanish (Peru)
  
• citrongräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide CultTropS; Pl Res SEAs 19:95. 1999)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (used as a masking fragrance fide Pl Res SEAs 19:98. 1999)
  
• Materials: lipids   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Weed CRCAustralia 145. 2007)
  

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Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. Thomas
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• origin unknown

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anjaria, J. V. 1989. Herbal Drugs: Potential for industry and cash. In: G. E. Wickens et al., New crops for food and industry. In: Wickens, G. E. et al., eds., New crops for food and industry. 90.
• Bellenot, D. 2009. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1950. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi. 2:412–414.
• 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. [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. [cultivated, as Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Hollyman, K. J. et al. 1993. Les noms français des plantes calédoniennes : étude lexicographique et lexicologique. 222 pp. [Didier, Paris].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [lists as C. citratus (DC. ex Nees) Stapf].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource). [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 19:95–98. [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Soukup, J. 1971. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 106–107. [re. Spanish (Peru) common name].
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–380.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 167. [lists as C. citratus (DC.) Stapf].
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• 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.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Andropogon citratus DC. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other web resources for Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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