The name of the species has been changed as Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty.

This grass is evergreen perennial growing and reaches up to height of 5 ft. Vetiveria zizanoides is cultivated for its medicinally valued essential oil. An essesntial oils from its leaves are best source of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antifungal activities.

This grass is of Indian origin. Perennial herbs. Culms tufted, subcompressed, rhizomatous. Leaf margins spinulosely serrate. Panicles oblong or oblong-elliptic, contracted; branches filiform. Sessile spikelets oblonglanceolate, awnless. Pedicelled spikelets lanceolate.