Vetiveria nigritana (Benth.) Stapf

First published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 157 (1917)
This name is a synonym of Chrysopogon nigritanus

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Chrysopogon nigritanus.]
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Chrysopogon nigritanus.]

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • A. Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 13: 858
  • Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 403.
  • in F.T.A. 9: 157 (1917)

Kew Plants for Health

  • "SEPASAL database. (RBG Kew, 1999)"
  • "UPWTA (Burkill, 2025)"
  • MPNS Import

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Clayton in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3: 470 (1972).
  • D.M. Napper, Grasses of Tanganyika: 99 (1965).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 557 (1956).
  • Jackson & Wiehe, Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 65 (1958).
  • Robyns, Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 100 (1929).
  • Stapf in Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 157 (1917).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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