Calamus didymocarpus Warb. ex Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, Tambing Lake, Lore Lindu National Park, relatively
undisturbed forest near lake, 01°19.578’S, 120°18.609’E, 1580 m elevation. 25 October 2017.
Calamus didymocarpus Warburg ex Beccari	tomoni
Stems clustered, 25 m long, 3 cm diameter. Sheaths green with dense, black, horizontal, flat
spines; ocreas scarcely developed, fringed; petioles absent; rachises 146 cm long; pinnae 27 per
side of rachis, regularly arranged, leathery, with numerous vestigial spinules abaxially; proximal
pinnae much reduced and swept back across the sheath, distal pinnae much reduced; cirri spines
irregular or almost regular. Inflorescences staminate, inserted well below the knees, 190 cm long,
terminating in a 40 cm long, straight ‘flagellum’; rachis bracts tubular (but seem ‘palustris type’).
A. Henderson, Ramadhanil Pitopang, Sahlan & Martin Topanga 4297
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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