Calamus didymocarpus Warb. ex Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road from Tambing Lake to Sedoa, undisturbed
forest on steep slope, 01°19.977’S, 120°19.538’E, 1567 m elevation. 16 November 2017.
Calamus didymocarpus Warburg ex Beccari	lauro pai
Stems solitary, 30 m long, 3 cm diameter. Sheaths with dense, black, horizontal, triangular
spines; knees not spiny; petioles absent; rachises 170 cm long; pinnae 25 per side of rachis,
regularly arranged, somewhat leathery, with numerous vestigial spinules abaxially, distal ones
much reduced. Infructescences 390 cm long; rachillae elongate, with paired pistillate flowers,
ending in a spine-like bracteole; fruits whitish.
A. Henderson, Sahlan, Semuel Torokano & Martin Topanga 4328
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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