Cymbopogon

Cymbopogon atau Serai adalah sebuah genus tumbuhan pulau tropis di Asia, Afrika, dan Australia dalam keluarga rumput.
Beberapa spesies (terutama Cymbopogon citratus) umum ditanam sebagai tumbuhan obat dan makanan.

Daftar Spesies Serai 
Dibawah ini merupakan daftar spesies serai (Cymbopogon):

 Cymbopogon ambiguus (Australian lemon-scented grass) – Australia, Timor
 Cymbopogon annamensis – Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
 Cymbopogon bhutanicus – Bhutan
 Cymbopogon bombycinus silky oilgrass – Australia
 Cymbopogon caesius – Sub-Saharan Africa, Indian Subcontinent, Yemen, Afghanistan, Madagascar, Comoros, Réunion
 Cymbopogon calcicola – Thailand, Kedah
 Cymbopogon calciphilus – Thailand
 Cymbopogon cambogiensis – Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
 Cymbopogon citratus – Serai Dapur
 Cymbopogon clandestinus – Thailand, Myanmar, Andaman Islands
 Cymbopogon coloratus – Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Myanmar, Vietnam
 Cymbopogon commutatus – Sahel, East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
 Cymbopogon densiflorus – central + south-central Africa
 Cymbopogon dependens – Australia
 Cymbopogon dieterlenii – Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
 Cymbopogon distans – Gansu, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, northern Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir
 Cymbopogon exsertus – Nepal, Assam
 Cymbopogon flexuosus (East Indian lemon grass) – Indian Subcontinent, Indochina
 Cymbopogon gidarba – Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Yunnan
 Cymbopogon giganteus – Africa, Madagascar
 Cymbopogon globosus – Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland
 Cymbopogon goeringii – China, Korea, Japan incl Ryukyu Islands, Vietnam
 Cymbopogon gratus – Queensland
 Cymbopogon jwarancusa – Socotra, Turkey, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Indian Subcontinent, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Vietnam
 Cymbopogon khasianus – Yunnan, Guangxi, Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
 Cymbopogon liangshanensis – Sichuan
 Cymbopogon mandalaiaensis – Myanmar
 Cymbopogon marginatus – Cape Province of South Africa
 Cymbopogon martini (palmarosa) – Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
 Cymbopogon mekongensis – China, Indochina
 Cymbopogon microstachys Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Thailand, Yunnan
 Cymbopogon microthecus – Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, West Bengal, Bangladesh
 Cymbopogon minor – Yunnan
 Cymbopogon minutiflorus – Sulawesi
 Cymbopogon nardus (citronella grass) – Serai Wangi
 Cymbopogon nervatus – Myanmar, Thailand, central Africa
 Cymbopogon obtectus Silky-heads – Australia
 Cymbopogon osmastonii – India, Bangladesh
 Cymbopogon pendulus – Yunnan, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Vietnam
 Cymbopogon polyneuros – Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
 Cymbopogon pospischilii – eastern + southern Africa, Oman, Yemen, Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan
 Cymbopogon procerus – Australia, New Guinea, Maluku, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi
 Cymbopogon pruinosus – islands of Indian Ocean
 Cymbopogon queenslandicus – Queensland
 Cymbopogon quinhonensis – Vietnam
 Cymbopogon rectus – Lesser Sunda Islands, Java
 Cymbopogon refractus (barbed wire grass) – Australia incl Norfolk Island
 Cymbopogon schoenanthus (camel hay or camel grass) – Sahara, Sahel, eastern Africa, Arabian Peninsular, Iran
 Cymbopogon tortilis – China incl Taiwan, Ryukyu + Bonin Is, Philippines, Vietnam, Maluku
 Cymbopogon tungmaiensis – Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
 Cymbopogon winterianus (citronella grass) – Borneo, Java, Sumatra
 Cymbopogon xichangensis – Sichuan

dahulu disertakan
Banyak spesies dari serai yang sekarang dimasukan ke dalam genus lain seperti Andropogon, Exotheca, Hyparrhenia, Iseilema, Schizachyrium, and Themeda.

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