Botanical name: Cymbopogon distans    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Andropogon distans, Andropogon nardus var. distans

Himalayan Lemon Grass is a perennial grass with stems erect, up to 90 cm tall. Leaf blades are narrowly linear to thread-like, flat or folded, up to 50 cm long and 3 mm wide, pale to dark green; basal sheaths hairless to minutely finely velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne in simple panicles, interrupted, 15-30 cm long; spatheoles narrowly elliptic, greyish-green, 2.5-3.5 cm long. Racemes 2.5-3.5 cm long, lowermost flower-stalk not swollen; internodes and flower-stalks densely fringed with hairs along the margins, hairless or minutely finely velvet-hairy on the back. Stalkless spikelets are narrowly lanceshaped, 6-7.5 mm long; lower glume shallowly concave in the lower part, flattish above and often transversely wrinkled, narrowly winged on the keels, 2-toothed at the tip; upper lemma deeply bifid, with an awn 1.5-2 cm long. Himalayan Lemon Grass is found in Pakistan to Himalayas to Yunan, at altitudes of 2000-3500 m. Flowering: August-October.

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