Cymbopogon

Accepted species 52 Documented here 10 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 52 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cymbopogon refractus (R.Br.) A.Camus 265 documented
Cymbopogon pospischilii (K.Schum.) C.E.Hubb. 61 documented
Cymbopogon marginatus (Steud.) Stapf 53 documented
Cymbopogon tortilis (J.Presl) A.Camus 43 documented
Cymbopogon caesius (Hook. & Arn.) Stapf 15 documented
Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf 13 documented
Cymbopogon ambiguus (Hack.) A.Camus 12 documented
Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle 10 documented
Cymbopogon goeringii (Steud.) A.Camus 3 documented
Cymbopogon obtectus S.T.Blake 3 documented
Cymbopogon schoenanthus (L.) Spreng. 4 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon flexuosus (Nees ex Steud.) Will.Watson 2 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon annamensis (A.Camus) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon bhutanicus Noltie 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon bombycinus (R.Br.) Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon calcicola C.E.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon calciphilus Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon cambogiensis (Balansa) E.G.Camus & A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon clandestinus (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon coloratus (Hook.f.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon commutatus (Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon densiflorus (Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon dependens B.K.Simon 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon dieterlenii Stapf ex Schweick. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) Will.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon exsertus (Hack.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon gidarba (Steud.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon giganteus Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon globosus Henrard 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon gratus Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon iwarancusa (Jones ex Roxb.) Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon khasianus (Hack.) Stapf ex Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon liangshanensis S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon mandalaiaensis Soenarko 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon martini (Roxb.) Will.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon mekongensis A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon microstachys (Hook.f.) Soenarko 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon microthecus (Hook.f.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon minor B.S.Sun & R.Zhang ex S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon minutiflorus S.Dransf. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon nervatus (Hochst.) Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon osmastonii R.Parker 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon pendulus (Nees ex Steud.) Will.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon polyneuros (Steud.) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon procerus (R.Br.) Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon pruinosus Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon queenslandicus S.T.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon quinhonensis (A.Camus) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon rectus (Steud.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon traninhensis (A.Camus) Soenarko 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon tungmaiensis L.Liu 0 below the evidence gate
Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt ex Bor 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.