University of Isfahan Taxonomy and Biosystematics 3115-9001 5 15 2013 08 23 Rediscovery of Acorus calamus (Acoraceae) in Iran بازیابی گونه Acorus calamus از تیره Acoraceae در ایران 113 116 17477 EN Abbas Gholipour Biology Department, Payame Noor University, 19395-4697 Tehran, I. R. of Iran Ali Sonboli 2 Department of Plant Biology, Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2016 06 14 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. https://tbj.ui.ac.ir/article_17477_9d2b08f7c4a8c9c546462e611519a41e.pdf