{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "chrysopogon-zizanioides",
 "type": "Botanical",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "GBIF-1",
  "GC-10",
  "GC-11",
  "GC-12"
 ],
 "notes": "Formerly Vetiveria zizanioides (L.) Nash (docs/sources/GC-12-burger-2017-vetiver-cosmetics.md:13). Native to India (GC-12) or India and Southeast Asia (GC-10, docs/sources/GC-10-barcellos-silva-2025-vetiver.md:13); now grown throughout the tropics.",
 "latin_name": {
  "value": "Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GBIF-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/step7/gbif/gbif-Chrysopogon_zizanioides.usage.json:25",
  "quote": "\"scientificName\": \"Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the accepted name in the GBIF Backbone (usage 5677150); GC-11 and GC-12 write it the same way"
 },
 "common_name": {
  "value": "vetiver",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-10",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-10-barcellos-silva-2025-vetiver.md:13",
  "quote": "Commonly known as vetiver, this species is a member of the Poaceae family and is originally native to India and Southeast Asia but is now globally distributed in tropical and subtropical regions [1].",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "Poaceae",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GBIF-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/step7/gbif/gbif-Chrysopogon_zizanioides.usage.json:9",
  "quote": "\"family\": \"Poaceae\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "and GC-10, GC-12: “a member of the Poaceae family”"
 },
 "part_used": {
  "value": "the roots, dried",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-11",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-11-ouyang-2021-vetiver-smelling-principle.md:13",
  "quote": "The essential oil of vetiver is obtained in 0.2–0.3 % yield by hydrodistillation of the dried roots of the tufted perennial grass Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "cultivars": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no cultivar is named in a filed source; GC-12 distinguishes a fertile Indian form and a sterile form grown elsewhere (not quoted, not cultivars)"
 },
 "origins": [
  {
   "origin": "haiti-ht",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GC-12",
   "where": "docs/sources/GC-12-burger-2017-vetiver-cosmetics.md:19",
   "quote": "Haiti is the world’s first exporter of vetiver and more than 50,000 families are totally and directly dependent on this resource for their living [15].",
   "note": "the world’s first exporter (a sentence cited to a news article)",
   "confidence": "B"
  }
 ],
 "materials": [
  {
   "material": "vetiver-oil",
   "extraction": "hydrodistillation"
  }
 ],
 "media": [
  "spec-vetiver",
  "or-5-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-vetiver",
  "card": "/materials#naturals"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Chrysopogon zizanioides, vetiver, is a perennial grass of the family Poaceae, native to India and now grown throughout the tropics. The oil is distilled from its dried roots.",
  "body": [
   "It was long called Vetiveria zizanioides; the name on record now is Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty."
  ]
 }
}