Calamus didymocarpus Warb. ex Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road from Sedoa to Bariri, forest on steep slope,
01o39.772’S, 120°16.624’E, 1281 m elevation. 17 November 2017.
Calamus didymocarpus Warburg ex Beccari	lauro pai
Stems clustered, 30 m long, 4 cm diameter. Sheaths mottled white and green, with dense, black,
horizontal spines; ocreas short, fringed; petioles 13 cm long; rachises 138 cm long; pinnae 25 per
side of rachis, leathery, with numerous vestigial spinules all over abaxial surface, regularly
arranged, with spinules on midveins adaxially; distal pinnae reduced and vestigial; cirri spines
irregular. Inflorescences pistillate, 467 cm long, pendulous; rachis bracts strictly tubular; fruits
globose, white
A. Henderson, Sahlan, Semuel Torokano & Martin Topanga 4337
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.