香茅Cymbopogon citratus (dC.)Stapf

别名：茅香;白茅香;芳香草;救兵草;毛鞘茅香;茅香花;搔日乃;香草;香麻;

科名：禾亚科 Agrostidoideae

属名：香茅属 Cymbopogon

种中文名：香茅
种拉丁名：Cymbopogon citratus (dC.)Stapf
属中文名：香茅属
科中文名：禾亚科
科拉丁名：Agrostidoideae
形态特征：多年生草本
模式采自：园艺栽培植
是否栽培：栽培
湖北分布：咸宁,武汉
国内分布：我国南方和台湾

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Cymbopogon citratus  (Candolle) Stapf
香茅   xiang mao
Andropogon citratus Candolle, Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. 78. 1813.
Perennial, shortly rhizomatous. Culms tufted, robust, up to 2 m tall, ca. 4 mm in diam., farinose below nodes. Leaf sheaths glabrous, greenish inside; leaf blades glaucous, 30–90 × 0.5–2 cm, both surfaces scabrid, base gradually narrowed, apex long acuminate; ligule ca. 1 mm. Spathate compound panicle large, lax, up to 50 cm, drooping, branches slender; spatheoles reddish or yellowish brown, 1.5–2 cm; racemes 1.5–2 cm; rachis internodes and pedicels 2.5–4 mm, loosely villous on margins; pedicel of homogamous pair not swollen. Sessile spikelet linear-lanceolate, 5–6 × ca. 0.7 mm; lower glume flat or slightly concave toward base, sharply 2-keeled, keels wingless, scabrid, veinless between keels; upper lemma narrow, entire and awnless, or slightly 2-lobed with ca. 0.2 mm mucro. Pedicelled spikelet 4–5 mm. Fl. and fr. summer. 2n = 40.
Commonly cultivated. Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [origin unknown; cultivated in tropical Asia and elsewhere].
This species (Lemon Grass), known only from cultivation, is grown on a large scale in parts of tropical Asia and South America for the lemon-scented oil extracted from its leaves. The oil is used for both medicinal and culinary purposes. Flowers are seldom produced.

《全国中草药汇编》:香茅

【拼音名】 Xiānɡ Máo
【别名】 柠檬茅、香巴茅、风茅
【来源】 禾本科香茅属植物香茅Cymbopogon citratus （DC.）Stapf，以全草入药。全年可采，洗净晒干。
【性味】 辛，温。
【功能主治】 祛风除湿，消肿止痛。用于风湿疼痛，头痛，胃痛，腹痛，腹泻，月经不调，产后水肿，跌打淤血肿痛。
【用法用量】 3～5钱；或提取香茅油，每服数滴。
【摘录】 《全国中草药汇编》