• Acorus calamus • {ling:lé}
/ {ling:né}
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Family: Araceae 1 entry
• Acorus calamus
• {ling:lé}
/ {ling:né}
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Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 54-1426:
()
{ling:lé (ling:né)}
• FAO : NL
• Lè-seik-shin 411:
{ling:né}
• KS-TMN 57: Lin-ne
• Nagathein 3-260:
{ling:né}
• UHM 02: Lin-ne
Myanmar-Script Spelling
•
Official Myanmar Dictionaries
{ling:lé}
-
--
TravPo-M-Dict 297
{ling:né}
- n. See
{ling:lé}
-- Myan-Engl-Dict 450
{ling:lé}
- n. sweet flag, Acorus calamus -- Myan-Engl-Dict 451
Hindi
• {Go-Ða baky} -- Nagathein
Sanskrit
• बछ
{baky} -- Nagathein, transliteration by UKT.
Transliteration not reliable because of poor print quality and also because of
variable pronunciation between r2c2 and r1c1-r6c1 conjunct.
English common name used in Myanmar
• Agri.Dept.2000 54-1426: Sweet flag
• FAO : NL
• Lè-seik-shin 411: Sweet flag
• KS-TMN 57: Sweet flag
• Nagathein 3-260:
{ling:né}
• UHM 02: Sweet Flag, Sweet Root, Sweet Cinnamom, Sweet Cane,
Sweet or Grass Myrtle, Calamus Root, Radix Acori, Radix Calami Aromatica
• Leader --
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=plant_profile.cgi&symbol=ACCA4
• Photos: left -- flowers,
right -- habit with fruits -- KS-TMN
• 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 -- KS-TMN
• A perennial herb with a horizontal aromatic rhizome. -- UHM
• Grows wild throughout Myanmar in marshes, especially on the hills or cultivated. -- KS-TMN
• Rangoon, Taunggyi, Taunglelon, Mongnai (Southern Shan State), Bilin, Kyaikmaraw, Peinnegon, Yedwingon, Naunglon, Natsan, Mekaru (Moulmein) -- UHM
• Rhizomes: Cathartic; 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; Migraine; Loss of memory; Head-ache. -- KS-TMN
• Dried rhizome. Emetic, nauseant, antispasmodic, carminative, chronic diarrhoea stimulant.-- UHM
• 1. Volatile oil - 1.5 to 3.5 %, 2. Acorin - bitter, viscid, aromatic glucosidal principle, 3. Choline - Trimethyl-oxyethyl-ammonium hydrate, 4. Soft resin - about 2.3 %, 5. Tannin, mucilage, starch and calcium oxalate. (3)-- UHM
Entry format: Botanical name / Family / Ref. Burmese-Myanmar
transcripts (• Agri.Dept.2000 :
• Chklist: • LSR : • FAO : • KS-TMN:
• Nagathein :
• UHM :/ Myanmar-Script Spelling (•
Official Myanmar Dictionaries : - TravPo-M-Dict - Myan-Engl-Dict - Myan-Ortho
/ Hindi /
Sanskrit / English common name used in Myanmar / Picture /
Plant identification characters / Distribution in Myanmar / Part
used and uses / Constituents /
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