Myanmar name: Lin-ne
English name: Sweet Flag
Family: Araceae
Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein 3-260:
{lin:né}
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{lin:né} Acorus calamus L. 3-260
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Botanical name: Acorus calamus L. Sp. Pl. 1753. Myanmar name: Lin-ne English name: Sweet Flag Family: Araceae
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Identification characters:
A perennial marsh herb; rootstock with profusely branched cylindrical rhizomes,
bearing many fleshy and a few non-fleshy roots, strongly aromatic. Leaves
simple, distichous; exstipulate; sessile; laninae ensiform, the bases equitant,
the margins entire, the tips mucronate, unicostate, parallel, very aromatic when
crushed. Inflorescences in axillary spadices, the spadix oblongoid, produced
direct from the rootstock, borne laterally on the peduncle, erect, very densly
flowered, yellowish green; peduncles leaf-like; spathes ensiform, a continuation
of the peduncle, subtend the spadix at the base, persistent. Flowers sessile,
bisexual, actinomorphic, trimerous, hypogynous. Perianth 6, 2-seriate,
apophyllous, the segments orbicular-concave, the tips incurved, brown, scarious,
persistent. Androecium polyandrous, stamens 6, in 2 whorls, the filaments
linear, flattened, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, dorsifixed, extrorse,
dehiscence longitudinal. Pistill 1, ovary ellipsoid, 1-carpelled, 1-loculed, the
placentation axile, the ovules 2 in each locule, the style obscure, the stigmas
triangular, mucronate. Fruit a berry, turbinate, prismatic, few-sweeded; seeds
oblongoid, endospermic.
Flowering and fruiting periods: January - April
Distribution: Grows wild throughout Myanmar in marshes, especially on the hills or cultivated.
Parts used and uses: Rhizomes: Cathrtic; Diuretic; Antiseptic; Good for larynx; Disinfectant of urine and bowel; Colic; Indigestion; Oedema; Epilepsy; Carminative; Fevers; Psychoses; Expectorant; Unproductive cough; Sore throat; Infantile cough; Flatulence; Haemorrhoids; Anthelmintic; Arthritis; Facial palsy; Migranie; Loss of memory; Head-ache.
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