Flora Zambesiaca

Taxon Detail

FZ volume:10 part:4 (2002) Gramineae by T. A. Cope

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Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf (cultivated)

Range:

is cultivated throughout the tropics for culinary andmedicinal purposes.

Description:

Its inflorescence is awnless but in cultivation it rarely flowers; in the vegetative state it can be recognized by the long, scabrid, lemon-scented leaf laminas.