中文名（Chinese Name）：金钱蒲
学名（Scientific Name）：Acorus gramineus Sol. ex Aiton
英文名（English Common Name）：grassleaf sweet flag
别名（Chinese Common Name）：菖蒲、随手香
异名（Synonym）：Acorus tatarinowii Schott；Acorus gramineus var. crassispadix Lingelsh.；Acorus pusillus Siebold；Acorus gramineus var. pusillus (Siebold) Engl.；Acorus macrospadiceus (Yamam.) F.N.Wei & Y.K.Li；Acorus xiangyeus Z.Y.Zhu；Acorus humilis Salisb.；Acorus gramineus var. macrospadiceus Yamam.；Acorus gramineus var. japonica M.Hotta；Acorus brevispathus K.M. Liu；Acorus gramineus var. flavomarginatus K.M. Liu；Acorus tatarinowii var. flavomarginatus K.M. Liu 
科属（Family & Genus）：天南星科（Araceae）菖蒲属
形态特征（Description）：多年生草本，高20-30厘米。根茎较短，长5-10厘米，横走或斜伸，芳香，外皮淡黄色，节间长1-5毫米；根肉质，多数，长可达15厘米；须根密集。根茎上部多分枝，呈丛生状。叶基对折，两侧膜质叶鞘棕色，下部宽2-3毫米，上延至叶片中部以下，渐狭，脱落。叶片质地较厚，线形，绿色，长20-30厘米，极狭，宽不足6毫米，先端长渐尖，无中肋，平行脉多数。花序柄长2.5-9（-15）厘米。叶状佛焰苞短，长3-9（-14）厘米，为肉穗花序长的1-2倍，稀比肉穗花序短，狭，宽1-2毫米。肉穗花序黄绿色，圆柱形，长3-9.5厘米，粗3-5毫米，果序粗达1厘米，果黄绿色。花期5-6月，果7-8月成熟。
分布（Distribution）：产我国中南部，生于海拔1800米以下的水旁湿地或石上。
用途（Use）：根茎入药。芳香，手触摸之后香气长时不散，因谓“随手香”。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 23 Page 1, 2  
Acorus gramineus Solander ex Aiton, Hortus Kew. 1: 474. 1789.
金钱蒲 jin qian pu | Acoraceae  | Acorus
Acorus brevispathus K. M. Liu; A. gramineus var. flavomarginatus K. M. Liu; A. gramineus var. japonicus M. Hotta; A. gramineus var. macrospadiceus Yamamoto; A. gramineus var. pusillus (Siebold) Engler; A. humilis Salisbury; A. latifolius Z. Y. Zhu; A. macrospadiceus (Yamamoto) F. N. Wei & Y. K. Li; A. pusillus Siebold; A. rumphianus S. Y. Hu; A. tatarinowii Schott; A. tatarinowii var. flavomarginatus K. M. Liu; A. xiangyeus Z. Y. Zhu.
Rhizome slender, 5-10 × 0.4-0.6(-0.8) cm, aromatic. Leaves several, dark green, ensiform, (15-)20-45(-55) × (0.3-)0.5-1(-1.4) cm, midrib lacking, apex acuminate. Peduncle compressed triangular, (4-)9-20(-24) cm. Spathe green, leaflike, (8-)10-24(-25) × 0.2-0.4(-0.5) cm. Spadix straight or slightly curved, narrowly cylindric to subcylindric, (3-)4-10(-14) × (0.3-)0.4-0.6(-0.7) cm, densely flowered. Flowers yellowish or yellow-green to somewhat whitish, 1.8-2 mm in diam. seen from above; tepals ± oblong, 1.5-2 × 0.7-1 mm, keeled, membranous, apex rounded or acute; filaments oblong, flat, ca. 1.5 mm, anthers yellow, 0.4-0.5 mm in diam.; pollen grains ca. 15 µm, exine more densely foveolate; gynoecium obconic-cylindric, (2-)2.5-3 × (1.2-)1.8-2 mm, with conic, spongy apex and stigma very small. Infructescence yellowish to yellow-white at maturity, 1-1.5 cm in diam., berries densely arranged. Berry obovoid-globose, few to several seeded, 3-3.5 × 2.2-2.5 mm. Seed ellipsoid, (2-)2.5-3 × (0.8-)1-1.2 mm, with many long (3-4 mm) bristles (longer than seed itself); testa light brown, smooth. Fl. Feb-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 24.
Dense forests, moist rocky stream banks, meadows; below 2600 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Cambodia, NE India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Russia (E Siberia), Thailand, Vietnam].
Acorus gramineus occurs only in diploid populations（责任编辑：徐晔春）