Calamus boniensis Becc. ex K.Heyne

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road from Tentena to Pendolo, undisturbed forest,
02°01.907’S, 120°46.855’E, 711 m elevation. 23 November 2017.
Calamus sp.	lauro watu
Stems ca. 5 m long, 1.4 cm diameter. Sheaths densely spiny with needle-like spines; ocreas
spiny; petioles 8 cm long; rachises 106 cm long; pinnae 9 per side of rachis, arranged in
divergent pairs, with numerous vestigial spinules all over abaxial surface; distal ones not
reduced; cirri spines more or less regular.
A. Henderson, Roland Putra Pribadi Ahmad & Semuel Torokano 4351
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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