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Taxon:  Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt



Summary
Genus:
Cymbopogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
103628
Place of publication:
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Peradeniya) 4:188. 1908
Verified:
02/09/2006 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
No images
Reference(s)
  1. 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
  2. Bellenot, D. 2009. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
  3. Bor, N. L. 1953. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960 51:906. Note: cites Jowitt's p.189
  4. 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- 2:326-330.
  5. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1994. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980- 8:133.
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  7. Lazarides, M. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. 1980
  8. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
  9. 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
  10. Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 19:106-110. http://proseanet.org
  11. 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
  12. Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
  13. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  14. 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
Burma citronella –
Java citronella –
French
citronnelle de Java –
herbe citron de Java –
German
Javacitronelle –
Swedish
javagräs –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    also cult. elsewhere
2CultivatedAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaGuatemala  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaHonduras  
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Africa
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ghana
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
  • INDO-CHINA: Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • MESOAMERICA: Guatemala, Honduras
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
essential oils (used in perfumery & for insect repellents fide Pl Res SEAs 19:106. 1999; CultTropS) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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