Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cymbopogon schoenanthus subsp. schoenanthus [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Cymbopogon schoenanthus (L.) Spreng.
Infraspecies:: Cymbopogon schoenanthus subsp. proximus (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Maire & Weiller

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
camel grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Andropogon circinnatus Hochst. & Steud. in E.G.von Steudel, Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 387 (1854).
Andropogon eriophorus Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 910 (1806).
Andropogon laniger Munro J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 409 (1882), nom. nud.
Andropogon mascatensis Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 66: 299 (1919 publ. 1920).
Andropogon nardoides Nees Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 116 (1841).
Andropogon schoenanthus var. versicolor (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 6: 610 (1889).
Andropogon versicolor Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 388 (1854).
Cymbopogon arabicus Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 387 (1854), pro syn.
Cymbopogon circinnatus (Hochst. & Steud.) Hochst. ex Hack. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 6: 599 (1889).
Cymbopogon schoenanthus subsp. velutinus Cope Kew Bull. 39: 834 (1984).
Cymbopogon versicolor (Nees ex Steud.) Will.Watson in E.T.Atkinson, Gaz. N. W. Ind. 10: 392 (1882).
Lagurus schoenanthus Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 461 (1821), pro syn.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cymbopogon schoenanthus (L.)Sprengel schoenanthus	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Cymbopogon schoenanthus subsp. schoenanthus	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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