Cymbopogon nardus var. nardus (L.) Rendle

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
  • Synonym(s) : Andropogon nardus L.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle
  • Common name : Ceylon citronella, Citronella grass, Nardus, Nard grass, Lemon grass, Mana grass
  • Vernacular name : Gavatichaha (Marathi); Chorapullu, Kamakshi-pullu, Vattupullu (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : Cultivated for aromatic oil
  • Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Kollam district
    • Maharashtra : Nagpur district
    • Odisha : Introduced in the AM garden, RRL, Bhubaneswar
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cymbopogon nardus var. nardus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Peninsular India by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ernet.in.