Cymbopogon goeringii(Steud.) A.Camus

WFO wfo-0000861013 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cymbopogon goeringii, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-10-02 / obs. 161516092
Cymbopogon goeringii, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161516121
Cymbopogon goeringii, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161516137

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Cymbopogon goeringii is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Cymbopogon goeringii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Ogasawara-shoto OGA
Taiwan TAI
Vietnam VIE ASIA-TROPICAL

Not drawn on the map: Ogasawara-shoto. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Andropogon goeringii Steud.
  • Andropogon nardus var. goeringii (Steud.) Hack.
  • Cymbopogon angustispica Nakai
  • Cymbopogon goeringii var. goeringii
  • Cymbopogon goeringii var. hongkongensis Soenarko
  • Cymbopogon goeringii var. viridis Honda
  • Cymbopogon nardus var. goeringii (Steud.) Rendle
  • Cymbopogon nervosus B.S.Sun
  • Cymbopogon tortilis subsp. goeringii (Steud.) T.Koyama
  • Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (Steud.) Hand.-Mazz.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.