Calamus boniensis Becc. ex K.Heyne

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Sigi Regency, Lore Lindu National Park, road from Sadaunta to
Lake Lindu, forest on steep slope, 01°22.435’S, 120°00.388’E, 1190 m elevation. 12 December
2017.
Calamus sp.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
?Mini
03698002
Stems solitary but several close together, 12 m long, 2 cm diameter. Sheaths densely covered
with reddish-brown, narrow, needle-like, tomentose spines; petioles 0 cm; rachises 113 cm long;
pinnae 12 per side of rachis, arranged in divergent pairs, broad, elliptic, with short spinules on
veins adaxially; cirri spines more or less irregular. Inflorescences in bud; rachis bracts with a
fringe of spinules at apex.
A. Henderson, Moh. Iqbal, Anita & Faizal 4401
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.