Plant Details

Accepted name:: Acorus calamus var. angustatus Besser [Acoraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Acorus calamus L.
Infraspecies:: 2

Acorus calamus var. americanus Raf.

Acorus calamus var. calamus

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
acori tatarinowii rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
acorus	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
grassleaf sweetflag rhizome	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
rhizoma acori tatarinowi	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
rhizoma acori tatarinowii	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
shi chang pu	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
shichangpu	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
shih chang pu	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
石菖蒲	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Rhizome		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizome		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Acorus tatarinowii Schott Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 101 (1859).
Acorus terrestris Rumph. ex Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 579 (1860), nom. illeg.
Acorus asiaticus Nakai Rep. Exped. Manchoukuo Sect. IV 4: 105 (1936).
Acorus calamus var. spurius (Schott) Engl. in A.L.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 2: 217 (1879).
Acorus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Schott in H.W.Schott & S.L.Endlicher, Melet. Bot.: 22 (1832).
Acorus gramineus var. crassispadix Lingelsh. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 12: 312 (1922).
Acorus latifolius Z.Y.Zhu Acta Bot. Boreal.-Occid. Sin. 5: 118 (1985).
Acorus rumphianus S.Y.Hu Dansk Bot. Ark. 23: 416 (1968).
Acorus spurius Schott Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 1: 284 (1863).
Acorus triqueter Turcz. ex Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 578 (1860).
Orontium cochinchinense Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 208 (1790).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Acarus tatarinowii Schott	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Acorus calamus L. var. angustatus Besser	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Acorus calamus var. angustatus Bess.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Acorus calamus var. angustatus Besser	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Acorus tatarinowii	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Acorus tatarinowii Schott	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Acurus terrestris	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.

Search using just the accepted name

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images

Google Scholar

Encyclopedia of Life

Search using all scientific names used for this plant:

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images