• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf
• Common name : Lemon grass, West-Indian Lemon grass, Oil grass, Lemon grass, Melissa grass
• Vernacular name : Gandhatrin (Hindi); Majjige hullu (Kannada); Bhustrnah (Sanskrit); Gavatichaha (Marathi); Chayapullu, Chenganampullu, Chonakapullu, Inchipullu, Kothipullu, Padarpullu, Sambarapullu, Thannakkapullu, Theruvapullu, Thyilapullu, Vasanappullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Yeilds an essential oil popularly called as 'Lemon-grass-oil' which is used in herbal industries
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Solapur district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• World Distribution : Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; B.D. Sharma et al., 1996. Flora of Maharashtra state: Monocolydens. BSI
• 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 citratus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description