Summary
Place of publication:
E. T. Atkinson, Gaz. N.-W. Prov. India 10:392. 1882
Comment:
authorship verified from original literature (by K. Gandhi, pers. comm.)
Verified:
02/08/2006
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
Cochin lemongrass – East Indian lemongrass – lemongrass – Malabar grass – Malabar lemongrass – French
herbe de Malabar – lemongrass – verveine des Indes – German
Malabargras – ostindisches Lemongras – Spanish
pasto de Malabar –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Andhra Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Assam | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Bihar | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Karnataka | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Kerala | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Meghalaya | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Nagaland | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Tamil Nadu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | West Bengal | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
Native
Asia-Temperate
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India [Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal], Nepal
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INDO-CHINA:
Myanmar, Thailand
Cultivated
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Food additives | flavoring | | Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 19:99-102. |
Materials | essential oils | | Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968 167. |
Materials | lipids | | Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968 167. |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=12804.
Accessed 6 October 2024.