Kromme-Geelhout-Database
Species details
Genus
Genus : Cymbopogon
Family: Poaceae (Monocotyledon)
Taxon : Grass & Restios
Group : Plant
SPECIES
caesiusNOTES
A perennial grass with unbranched culms. Leaf blade to 14 mm wide, glabrous and flattened, often with a waxy coating and a distinct midrib. Ligule a short membrane. Unpalatable and of low grazing value.
AUTHORITY
(Hook. & Arn.) Stapf.Sub Author
Conservation
FrequentHabit
Tufted grassLand Invertebrate
n/aColour
- Notes: A thick, false, panicle with numerous pairs of racemes each enclosed by a spathe. Spikelets in pairs, one pedicellate and awnless and the other sessile with a twisted awn
- Colour: Brown
Common Name
- Broad leaved turpentine grass
- Buchu grass
- Eau de cologne grass
- Common turpentine grass
- Lemon scented grass
- Ginger grass
- Breeblaarterpentyngras
- Boegoegras
- Buchugras
- Gewone terpentyngras
- Koperdraadgras
- Lemoengras
- Stinkgras
- Suurgras
- Suurpol
- Buchu grass
Habitat
- NOTES: A common veld plant
- HABITAT NAME: Veld
Uses
- Gastro-intestinal treatments
- Sap from cooked roots is used as an anti-emetic. Known to contain some poisonous principles. Also sometimes used for thatching
- Magical uses
- Used in ritual cleansing washes
Months
- November
- December
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- All year
- December
Synonyms for Species
- Andropogon bicornis
- Andropogon connatus
- Andropogon excavates
- Andropogon foliates
- Andropogon nardoides
- Andropogon
- Cymbopogon caesius
- Cymbopogon conatus
- Cymbopogon excavatus
- Cymbopogon plicatus
- Cymbopogon suaveolens
- Gymnanthelia connate
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