- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 31830 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Cymbopogon commutatus | Entry Book Number | 15.1910 | |
| Artefact Name | Vernacular Name | ||||
| Iso Country | Senegal | TDWG Region | Senegal | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | Senegal, Africa, West Tropical Africa, Berbera | |||
| Uses | Use: ANIMAL FOOD User: Equines | TDWG use | ANIMAL FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | O'Byrne HM | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Recd. 31.I.10. Opuscular source: Letter 60, 1910. HM O'Byrne, Chief of Customs Berbera to Director The Somalis call it 'Aus Damen' (donkey grass) because it is a favourite fodder of the damer or donkey. They themselves pound it & pouring w, ater over it use the infusion as 'tea' adding either milk or sugar, or both according to individual preference. (Extract from letter HM O'Byrne, British Somaliland 15th Jan 1910 to Director) Subject 'Aus Damer', a fodder grass from Somaliland. The samples, consit of leaves only, but there is practically no doubt that they belong to Cymbopogon commutatus, a close ally of C.schoenanthus which in parts of Arabia has the reputation of being an excellent fodder grass (see the article on the oil-yielding grasses, of India in the Kew Bulletin 1906). The aromatic leaves of other species of Cymbopogon have been used for making a kind of tea. There is no reference in literature to the economical uses of C.commutatus. Signed O.Stapf. | ||||