- Family : ARACEAE
(Arum Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Acoraceae
- Synonym(s) : Calamus aromaticus Garsault
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Acorus calamus L.
- Common name : Sweet Flag, Sweet root
- Vernacular name :
- Ugragandha (Sanskrit)
- Gorbacc (Hindi)
- Bajae (Kannada)
- Vayambu, Vashnpa (Malayalam)
- Vasambu (Tamil)
- Yakand (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Water bodies
- Comments / notes : Frequent in marshy places, and sometimes cultivated for native medicine.
- Flower, Fruit : February-July
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Nashik district, Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Lakshadweep : Kadmat Islands, Kavaratti Islands, Minicoy Islands
- Native : Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, British Columbia, Buryatiya, Cambodia, China, Chita, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hainan, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Irkutsk, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazak
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, British Columbia, Buryatiya, Cambodia, China, Chita, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hainan, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Irkutsk, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Islands, Lakshadweep Islands, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maine, Malaya, Maldives, Manchuria, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Primorye, Prince Edward Island, Qinghai, Québec, Rhode Island, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Tibet, Tuva, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, Wisconsin, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 227
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acorus calamus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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