Taxon: Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty

Common names:

• cuscus grass   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – English
  
• khus-khus   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – English
  
• khus-khus grass   (Source: Vetiver Grass.NRC 93 [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – English
  
• vetiver   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – English
  
• vetiver grass   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – English
  
• chiendent odorant   (Source: Pl Res SEAs [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – French
  
• vétiver   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – French
  
• Vetivergras   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – German
  
• khas-khas   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – India
  
• capim-de-cheiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-sândalo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• patchuli-falso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• zacate violeta   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Vetiveria zizanioides]) – Spanish
  
• vetivergräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support   (fide Vetiver grass: a thin green line against erosion. 1993, National Research Council)
  
• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Vetiver grass: a thin green line against erosion. 1993, National Research Council)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (used in perfumery and soaps fide Vetiver Grass 11. 1993)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as Vetiveria zizanioides; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Vetiveria zizanioides)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Pakistan - Punjab; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource). [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• 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.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource). [as native].
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• Panel on Vetiver, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council. 1993. Vetiver grass: a thin green line against erosion. 11.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= Vetiveria zizanioides].
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1999. A revision of Chrysopogon Trin., including Vetiveria Bory (Poaceae) in Thailand and Malesia with notes on some other species from Africa and Australia. Austrobaileya 5:522–523.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123. [= Vetiveria zizaniodes].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Anatherum zizanioides (L.) Hitchc. & Chase
  
• (=) Andropogon muricatus Retz.
  
• (=) "Andropogon odoratus Steud., nom. inval."
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Andropogon squarrosus auct.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (≡) Andropogon zizanioides (L.) Urb.
  
• (≡) Phalaris zizanioides L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Vetiveria zizanioides (L.) Nash
  (previously associated with 36 accessions)

Check other web resources for Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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