Cymbopogon flexuosus (Steud.) Watson

 
  • Family : POACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Poaceae
  • Species : Cymbopogon flexuosus
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cymbopogon flexuosus (Nees ex Steud.) W.Watson
  • Collection Nos : HFP 609, HFP 1958
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments : Forming clumps in deciduous forests and found growing at an altitude of above 1000 m. Yields the essential oil popularly called as ' Oil of Lemon Grass'.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Bidar, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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