芦苇Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.

别名：common reed;胡芦斯;巴补;芦草根;芦根;南方芦苇;苇子草;南芦苇;芦苇子;芦草;好鲁苏;苇;呼勒斯;蒹;呼勒斯－额布斯;苇葭;芦芽;芦头;芦柴;芦;葭;呼勒斯鹅;苇子;

科名：禾本科 Gramineae

属名：芦苇属 Phragmites

《中国植物志》第9(2)卷027页
  3. 芦苇（台湾植物名录）芦、苇、葭（均见名医别录），兼（诗经. 秦风） 图版4: 3, 3a
  Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 2: 324. 1841; Greut. in Boiss. 13: 174. 1961; Clayt. in Taxon 17: 168. 1968; Tzvel. in Fed. Poac. URSS 606. 1976; Bor in Rech. f. Fl. Iran. 70: 352. 1970; Tutin et al. Fl. Europ. 5: 253. fig. 3, 1980; Th. A. Cope in Nasir, Fl. Pakist. 143: 25. 1982; 新疆植物检索表 1: 95. 1982; 内蒙古植物志 7: 51, 图版19. 1-6. 1983, ——Arundo australis Cav. in Anal, Hist. Nat. 1: 100. 1799——Arundo phragmites L. Sp. Pl. 81. 1753. ——Phragmites communis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 303. 1986; Bor, Grass. Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pakist. 416. 1960; 中国主要植物图说·禾本科 337, 图277.1959; 台湾的禾草 229. 1970; 中国沙漠植物志 1: 34, 图版9: 4-6. 1985.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Phragmites australis  (Cavanilles) Trinius ex Steudel
芦苇   lu wei
Arundo australis Cavanilles, Anales Hist. Nat. 1: 100. 1799; A. phragmites Linnaeus; Phragmites communis Trinius.
Robust perennial from an extensive creeping rhizome; overground stolons sometimes present, straight, nodes glabrous. Culms up to 2 m or more tall, ca. 6 mm in diam., usually farinose below nodes, nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaf sheaths light green, glabrous or thinly hairy; leaf blades usually drooping, up to 50 × 1–3 cm, smooth or margins scabrous, tapering to a filiform apex; ligule a minute membranous rim, ciliate, hairs 0.2–0.6 mm. Panicle 20–50 × ca. 10 cm, branches of lowermost whorl usually spiculate to base, densely hirsute at insertion; pedicels 2–4 mm, glabrous or pilose only at base. Spikelets 10–18 mm, florets 2–5; glumes acute, lower glume up to 1/2 length of lowest lemma, 3–5 mm, upper glume 6–9 mm; lowest lemma linear-lanceolate, 8–15 mm; floret callus with hairs equal to lemma; bisexual lemmas very narrowly lanceolate, 9–16 mm, apex long attenuate. Fl. and fr. Jul–Nov. 2n = 36, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 84, 96, 120.
Moist places along river banks and lake margins, forming large colonies. Throughout China [cosmopolitan].
This is an extremely polymorphic, cosmopolitan reed with numerous chromosomal variants and ecotypes. Plants from the high Himalayas sometimes form short, leafy tufts with strongly distichous, short, pungent leaf blades. Similar variants occur elsewhere in the world in extreme conditions.