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枫茅Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt

枫茅Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt

别名:cymbopogon grass;香茅;爪哇香茅;

科名:禾本科 Gramineae

属名:香茅属 Cymbopogon

《中国植物志》第10(2)卷200页
  9. 枫茅(海南地方名)爪哇香茅(台湾的禾草)图版49:1-7
  Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Perandiya 4: 189. 1908; Bor in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 51: 906. 1953, Senar. Grass. Ceyl. 193. 1956; Bor, Grass. Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pakist. 132. 1960; Back. et al. Fl. Java 3: 611. 1968; 台湾的禾草663. 图237. 1975; S. Soen. in Reinwardtia, 9: 348. 1977; 台湾植物志5: 636. 图1460. 1978.
  多年生大型丛生草本,具强烈香气;根系较浅,根状茎粗短,质地硬,分蘖力强。叶鞘宽大,基部者内面呈桔红色,向外反卷,上部具脊,无毛或与叶片连接处被微毛;叶舌长2-3毫米,顶端尖,边缘具细纤毛;叶片长40-80(-100)厘米,宽1-1.5(-2.5)厘米,中脉粗壮,下部渐狭,基部窄于其叶鞘,上面具微毛,先端长渐尖,向下弯垂,侧脉平滑,边缘具锯齿状粗糙,下面粉绿色。伪圆锥花序大型,疏松,长20-50厘米,多回复合,下垂,分枝节部具毛,呈“之”字形膝曲;佛焰苞较小,长约1.5厘米;前叶脊上无毛;总状花序长1.5-2.5厘米,有3-5对小穗;小穗柄及总状花序轴边缘或背部具长1(中下部)-2(先端)毫米的柔毛。无柄小穗长约5毫米,第一颖椭圆状倒披针形,背部扁平或下凹,宽1-1.2毫米,上部具翼,边缘粗糙,脊间常具3脉或脉不明显,第二外稃具芒尖或芒长约5毫米,大多不伸出于小穗之外。有柄小穗长约5毫米,第一颖披针形,具7脉,边缘上部锯齿状粗糙。染色体2n=20,40 (Gupta,1969)。
  广东海南岛(兴隆福山)、台湾引种栽培;分布于印度、斯里兰卡、马来西亚、印度尼西亚爪哇至苏门答腊。模式标本采自斯里兰卡。
  栽培的香料植物,茎叶是提取精油香草醛(Citronellal)的原料。鲜叶含油量高,为0.6%-0.7%,精油中总香叶醇(Geraniol)含量83%-92%,价格较昂贵,品质优于亚香茅。
  本种以圆锥花序大型开展,后期下垂;无柄小穗长约5毫米,第一颖背部扁平,宽约1.2毫米,脊间常具3脉,第二外稃具长约5毫米的短芒,与邻近种亚香茅C. nardus(Linn.)Rendle有别。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Cymbopogon winterianus  Jowitt ex Bor
枫茅   feng mao
Perennial from a shallowly rooted rhizome. Culms tufted, robust, up to 2 m or more tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous, reddish inside; leaf blades relatively thin, drooping for 2/3 of their length, 40–80(–100) × 1–1.5(–2.5) cm, abaxial surface glaucous, adaxial surface light green, margins scabrid, base narrow, apex long acuminate; ligule 2–3 mm. Spathate compound panicle large, lax, up to 50 cm, much branched, main axis zig-zag, finally nodding; spatheoles reddish brown, 1.2–2.5 cm; racemes 1.5–2.5 cm; rachis internodes and pedicels softly ciliate on margins; pedicel of homogamous pair not swollen. Sessile spikelet elliptic-lanceolate, 4–5 × ca. 1 mm; lower glume flat or slightly concave, sharply 2-keeled, keels narrowly winged, 3-veined between keels; upper lemma very shortly 2-lobed, awn short or absent, not exserted from spikelet. Pedicelled spikelet 3.5–5 mm. 2n = 20, 40.
Commonly cultivated. Guangdong, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan [origin unknown; cultivated mainly in Indonesia].
This species, known only from cultivation, produces citronella oil of a higher quality than that from Cymbopogon nardus.

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