Calamus didymocarpus Warb. ex Becc.

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, 1198 m elevation. 12 December
2017.
Calamus didymocarpus Warburg ex Beccari
Stems solitary, 10 m long, 3 cm diameter. Sheaths mottled white and green, with numerous,
scattered, short, triangular, black spines (another plant seen here, at lower elevation, with non-
spiny sheaths); ocreas fringed; petioles 13 cm long; rachises 127 cm long; pinnae 22 per side of
rachis, regularly arranged, stiff and leathery; distal pinnae not reduced nor vestigial; cirri spines
more or less regular. Pistillate inflorescences 249 cm long; fruits white.
A. Henderson, Moh. Iqbal, Anita & Faizal 4399
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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