Acoraceae
Acorus
Acorus calamus

Acorus calamus var. angustatus Besser

First published in Flora 17(Beibl.): 30 (1834)
This variety is accepted
The native range of this variety is Asia. It is a perennial or rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Altay, Amur, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maldives, Manchuria, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Xinjiang

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST. [Cited as Acorus calamus.]
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. [Cited as Acorus calamus.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Nooteboom, H.P. (ed.) (2011). Flora Malesiana 20: 1-61. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
s.coll. [8837] K002466933 Yes
Weston, P.H. [2559] China Acorus tatarinowii K002466998 Yes
Qin, H.N. [894184] China Acorus tatarinowii K002466999 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Acorus tatarinowii K002466996 Yes
Handel-Mazzetti, H.R.E. [12079] China Acorus tatarinowii K002466997 Yes
Chow [1169] China Acorus asiaticus K002467061 Yes
Hu, S.Y. [6465] Hong Kong Acorus cochinchinensis K002467062 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images