Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran

Acorus calamus has already been reported based on a single specimen collected from Guilan province. Yet, this species has not been reported during last 50 years in Iran and thus, its herbarium specimen is not available. A sample of the species was collected from southern area of Sari during a study...

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Main Authors: Abbas Gholipour, Ali Sonboli
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: University of Isfahan 2013-09-01
Series:تاکسونومی و بیوسیستماتیک
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Online Access:http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/tbj/browse.php?a_code=A-10-233-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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description Acorus calamus has already been reported based on a single specimen collected from Guilan province. Yet, this species has not been reported during last 50 years in Iran and thus, its herbarium specimen is not available. A sample of the species was collected from southern area of Sari during a study on aquatic plants of Mazandaran province. According to the new finding, the natural occurrence of the species was confirmed in Iran. Complementary botanical description, photographs of plant habitat and distribution map of the species were presented. Although, according to the Flora Iranica and Flora of Iran Acorus was considered as a genus of Araceae the recent phylogenetic study considered its taxonomic position in Acoraceae as a distinct family. Therefore, Acoraceae is introduced as a new family to the Flora of Iran with a single representative i. e. Acorus calamus.
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spelling doaj.art-09adbfd9f43043b4ac108c9eee50f6882023-08-02T01:42:16ZfasUniversity of Isfahanتاکسونومی و بیوسیستماتیک2008-89062322-21902013-09-01515113116Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in IranAbbas Gholipour0Ali Sonboli1 Acorus calamus has already been reported based on a single specimen collected from Guilan province. Yet, this species has not been reported during last 50 years in Iran and thus, its herbarium specimen is not available. A sample of the species was collected from southern area of Sari during a study on aquatic plants of Mazandaran province. According to the new finding, the natural occurrence of the species was confirmed in Iran. Complementary botanical description, photographs of plant habitat and distribution map of the species were presented. Although, according to the Flora Iranica and Flora of Iran Acorus was considered as a genus of Araceae the recent phylogenetic study considered its taxonomic position in Acoraceae as a distinct family. Therefore, Acoraceae is introduced as a new family to the Flora of Iran with a single representative i. e. Acorus calamus.http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/tbj/browse.php?a_code=A-10-233-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1Iran Sari Aquatic plant Mazandaran Acorus Acoraceae Araceae
spellingShingle Abbas Gholipour
Ali Sonboli
Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran
تاکسونومی و بیوسیستماتیک
Iran
Sari
Aquatic plant
Mazandaran
Acorus
Acoraceae
Araceae
title Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran
title_full Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran
title_fullStr Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran
title_full_unstemmed Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran
title_short Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran
title_sort rediscovery of acorus calamus acoraceae in iran
topic Iran
Sari
Aquatic plant
Mazandaran
Acorus
Acoraceae
Araceae
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