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Taxon:  Chrysopogon serrulatus Trin.



Summary
Genus:
Chrysopogon
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Andropogoneae
Nomen number:
10512
Place of publication:
Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 2(3):318. 1832
Verified:
03/18/2003 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
3 (3  active, 1  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Andropogon tremulus Hack.
Andropogon trinii Steud.
Chrysopogon montanus Trin. ex Spreng. var. tremulus (Hack.) Stapf
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Reference(s)
  1. Bor, N. L. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. 1960
  2. Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. 1984
  3. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  4. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  5. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  6. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  7. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  8. Shukla, U. Grasses of north-eastern India. 1996
  9. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  10. Veldkamp, J. F. 1999. A revision of Chrysopogon Trin., including Vetiveria Bory (Poaceae) in Thailand and Malesia with notes on some other species from Africa and Australia. Austrobaileya 5:519-520.
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaCape Province 
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaTransvaal 
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaArunachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaBihar 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHimachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaJammu and Kashmir 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKarnataka 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaSumatra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, South Africa [Cape Province, Transvaal]
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar
Asia-Temperate
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka], Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand
  • MALESIA: Indonesia [Sumatra], Malaysia
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=10512. Accessed 18 July 2025.


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