lemon grass or cymbopogon-refers in Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico, to a genus of plants of the Poaceae family, with a great variety of species native to the warm and tropical regions of Asia; it is a type of perennial grass, cespitous, solid stem, aromatic leaves, short clusters; from this plant an essential oil is obtained that exerts an antibiotic activity against certain types of bacteria and fungi-
