Acorus calamus

Taxonomy ID: 4465 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid4465)

current name

Acorus calamus  L., 1753

Genbank common name: Eurasian sweet-flag
NCBI BLAST name: monocots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

common name(s)

sweet flag, flagroot

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; Liliopsida; Acorales; Acoraceae; Acorus

Comments and References:

image:Acorus calamus Image by J.F. Gaffard from Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

GRIN taxonomy Name verified on date of entry into database in: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

FNA - Acoraceae Thompson SA. 2000. Acoraceae Martinov. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.) Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 22: Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in Part), and Zingiberidae. New York and Oxford. On-line version.

TROPICOS (Jul 20, 2013) Name accessed on 20 July 2013 in: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, 2008 - 4344 Shaw Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A. on line at: http://www.tropicos.org/

Monocot Checklist (Jul 20, 2013) Name accessed on 20 July 2013 in: World Checklist of Monocotyledons (2004). The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet.

Flora of China - Acoraceae Heng Li, Guanghua Zhu & Josef Bogner. Acoraceae. In Wu, Z. Y., P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong, eds. 2010. Flora of China. Vol. 23 (Acoraceae through Cyperaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. Online version