Calamus didymocarpus Warb. ex Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Parigi-Moutong Regency, road from Ogomolos to Basidondo,
disturbed forest on steep slope, 00°34.984’N, 120°41.826’E, 716 m elevation. 27 October 2017.
Calamus didymocarpus Warburg ex Beccari
Stems solitary, 30 m long, 5.5 cm diameter. Sheaths green with numerous, short, triangular,
black spines; ocreas very short, fringed; petioles absent; rachises 173 cm long; pinnae 36 per side
of rachis, regularly arranged, somewhat leathery, apparently not vestigially spinulose abaxially,
both proximal and distal pinnae reduced; cirri spines almost regularly arranged but appearing
slightly irregular. Inflorescences staminate, elongate, 397 cm long, branched to 3 orders; rachis
bracts strictly tubular.
A. Henderson, Moh. Iqbal & Roland Putra Pribadi Ahmad 4308
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.