Calamus viminalis Willd.

• Region

  Asia

• Country

  Vietnam

• State/Province

  Dac Lac

• Locality

  Dak Lak Province: Yok Don National Park, by Serepok River

• Elevation

  Alt. 188 m. (617 ft.)

• Coordinates

  12.85, 107.78

• Distribution

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NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF VIETNAM
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
02448137
Vietnam. Dak Lak Province: Yok Don National Park, by Serepok River, 12°5rN, 107°47’E, 188
m elevation. 28th August 2018.
Calamusjgodefmyi Beccaa V'fwnV'rt 11 £
may
Stems clustered, growing on river margins, 10 m long, 2 cm diameter. Sheaths with dense, green,
horizontal, broadly triangular spines with deflexed margins; flagella present; ocreas very short,
soon falling; petioles 6 cm long; rachises 1.2 m long; pinnae 38-46 per side of rachis, with long,
straight spinules adaxially and spinules abaxially, proximalmost pinnae more or less swept back
across the sheath. Infructescences 3 m long; fruits white. Stems used by local (older) people to
make baskets.
A. Henderson & Nguyen Quoc Dung 4413
Field work carried out in collaboration with the Forest Planning and Inventory Institute and
funded by the International Palm Society.
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