Narrow-leaved sweet flag

Narrow-leaved sweet flag
	Narrow-leaved sweet flag ( Acorus gramineus )
Systematics
Class :	Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
	Monocots
Order :	Sweet flag (Acorales)
Family :	Calamus family (Acoraceae)
Genre :	Sweet flag ( acorus )
Type :	Narrow-leaved sweet flag
Scientific name
	Acorus gramineus
	Sol. ex Aiton

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The narrow-calamus or dwarf calamus ( Acorus gramineus ) is a plant from the genus calamus ( Acorus ) within the family Kalmusgewächse (Acoraceae). This marsh plant is found in East Asia, including China.

It is also used as a houseplant and garden plant. The rhizomes are consumed as a vegetable in Japan.

description

Vegetative characteristics

The narrow-leaved calamus (also called grassy calamus and grass-like calamus) is a perennial herbaceous plant . It forms slender rhizomes . The dark green leaves are linear (ensiform) with a length of mostly 20 to 45 (15 or 55) centimeters.

Generative characteristics

The hermaphrodite flowers are threefold. The flowers are yellowish, yellow-green or slightly whitish.

Chromosome number

There is always diploidy with the chromosome number 2n = 24.

Occurrence

The narrow-leaved calamus is native to the eastern Himalayas to Japan and the Philippines.

Taxonomy

The first publication of Acorus gramineus was in 1789 by Daniel Carl Solander in William Aiton : Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalog ... , 1, page 474. Synonyms for Acorus gramineus Sol. ex Aiton are: Acorus calamus Loureiro , Acorus humilis Salisbury , Acorus pusillus Siebold , Acorus gramineus var. pusillus (Siebold) Engl. , Acorus gramineus var. macrospadiceus Yamam. , Acorus gramineus var. Japonica M.Hotta , Acorus macrospadiceus (Yamam.) FNWei & YKLi , Acorus xiangyeus Z.Y.Zhu .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Heng Li, Guanghua Zhu, Josef Bogner: Acoraceae. : Acorus gramineus , p. 2 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Ed.): Flora of China. Volume 23: Acoraceae through Cyperaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis, 2010, ISBN 978-1-930723-99-3 .
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^ Gary Allen: The Herbalist in the Kitchen - The Food Series . University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-252-09039-4 , pp. 75 ( Acorus gramineus is mentioned on pages 75-77 with other Acorus species in the Google book search).
^ Acorus gramineus at Plants For A Future
↑ Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer, Stuttgart (1995) 2nd, revised and expanded edition, ibid 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 87.
↑ ^a ^b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
↑ Acorus gramineus at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Retrieved May 22, 2017.
^ Acorus gramineus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved May 22, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Dwarf Calamus ( Acorus gramineus ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[FoC-1] Heng Li, Guanghua Zhu, Josef Bogner: Acoraceae. : Acorus gramineus , p. 2 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Ed.): Flora of China. Volume 23: Acoraceae through Cyperaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis, 2010, ISBN 978-1-930723-99-3 .

[2] [1]

[Allen2010-3] Gary Allen: The Herbalist in the Kitchen - The Food Series . University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-252-09039-4 , pp. 75 ( Acorus gramineus is mentioned on pages 75-77 with other Acorus species in the Google book search).

[PFAF-4] Acorus gramineus at Plants For A Future

[5] Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer, Stuttgart (1995) 2nd, revised and expanded edition, ibid 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 87.

[WCSP-6] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

[Tropicos-7] Acorus gramineus at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Retrieved May 22, 2017.

[GRIN-8] Acorus gramineus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved May 22, 2017.