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Acorus calamus L.

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Acorus calamus L.
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🗒 Synonyms
synonymCalamus aromaticus Garsault, opus utique oppr.
🗒 Common Names
Assamese
  • Boch
English
  • Sweet Flag
  • Sweet root
Hin
  • Gorbach
Hindi
  • Gorbach
Malayalam
  • Vashanpa
  • Vayambu
Other
  • Bhajae
  • Sweet Flag
Tamil
  • Vasambu
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Aquatic herb
Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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    Brief
    Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb Distribution notes: Exotic
    Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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      Habit: Aromatic marsh herb
      Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
      Attributions Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
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      1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
      Diagnostic Keys
      Description
      A strongly aromatic semi-aquatic perennial herb; rhizomes creeping, jointed, somewhat vertically compressed, 1.3-2.5 cm thick, pale to dark brown and spongy inside. Leaves narrow, up to 80 cm long, linear to narrowly ensiform, glossy bright green, apex acute, base amplexicaul; petioles sheathing for 20-50 cm. Flowers pale green, fragrant, arranged compactly on a sessile, cylindrical, stumpy spadix 5-7 cm long. Fruits (berries) green, angular, 3-celled, fleshy, containing 1-3 oblong seeds.
      Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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        📚 Natural History
        Cyclicity
        Flowering and fruiting: April-July
        Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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          Morphology
          Flower

          In spadix, cylindrical, white. Flowering in July.

          Fruit

          A berry, oblong. Seeds few, oblong. Fruiting in July, very rare.

          Leaf Apices

          Acuminate

          Leaf arrangement

          Clustered

          Leaf Bases

          Decurrent

          Leaf Margins

          Entire

          Leaf Shapes

          Linear

          Leaf Types

          Simple

          Habit

          An aromatic marsh herb.

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            Miscellaneous Details
            Rhizome used in traditional medicine and also to protect clothing from insect attack. Once believed to be abundant but now difficult to find growing wild.
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              📚 Habitat and Distribution
              General Habitat

              Habitat

              Terrestrial
              Terrestrial
              Freshwater
              Freshwater
              Semi-aquatic and marshy localities
              Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                Probably introduced and commonly seen by water courses and marshes.Plains from the coast to 1200m. North temperate hemisphere and Tropical Asia.
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                  Marshes, ponds, ditches.
                  Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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                    Description
                    Global Distribution

                    North temperate hemisphere and Tropical Asia

                    Indian distribution

                    State - Kerala, District/s: Kottayam, Alappuzha, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Palakkad, Malappuram

                    Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                      Commonly seen near water ways & swamps of Palnis. Probably introduced grass. Plains from the coast to 1200m. North temperate hemisphere and Tropical Asia
                      Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                      Attributions Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
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                      1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                      Global Distribution

                      India: Assam, Punjab

                      Indian Distribution

                      Assam

                      Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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                        📚 Occurrence
                        No Data
                        📚 Uses and Management
                        Uses

                        System of Medicines Used In

                        Ayurveda
                        Ayurveda
                        Folk medicine
                        Folk medicine
                        Siddha
                        Siddha
                        Unani
                        Unani
                        Modern medicine
                        Modern medicine
                        Traditional chinese medicine
                        Traditional chinese medicine
                        Sowa-Rigpa
                        Sowa-Rigpa
                        Medicinal
                        Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                          Uses: Rhizome used as medicine
                          Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                          Attributions Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
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                          1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                          The roots are made into a paste with milk and given to children to improve digestion.
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                            System Of Medicines Used In

                            Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha, Modern medicine, Traditional chinese medicine

                            FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=53
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                              📚 Information Listing
                              References
                              1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                              1. Acorus calamus L., Sp. Pl. 324. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 555. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1577(1100). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 306. 1982; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 420. 1989; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 283. 1991; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 495. 1994; Ravikumar & Ved, Illustr. Field Guide 100 Red Listed Med. Pl. 34. 2000; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 727. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 901. 2009.
                              1. D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=53
                              Overview > Brief
                              1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                              Habitat and Distribution > Distribution > Description
                              1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                              Uses and Management > Uses
                              1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                              Information Listing > References
                              1. Mathew, K. M. "The flora of Palani Hills." Rapinat Herbarium, Tiruchirapalli, Part I-III.
                              2. Acorus calamus L., Sp. Pl. 324. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 555. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1577(1100). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 306. 1982; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 420. 1989; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 283. 1991; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 495. 1994; Ravikumar & Ved, Illustr. Field Guide 100 Red Listed Med. Pl. 34. 2000; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 727. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 901. 2009.
                              3. D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=53

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                              📚 Meta data
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                              🐾 Taxonomy
                              RootRoot
                              KingdomPlantae
                              PhylumTracheophyta
                              ClassLiliopsida
                              OrderAcorales
                              FamilyAcoraceae
                              GenusAcorus
                              SpeciesAcorus calamus L.
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