Calamus koordersianus Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Banggai Regency, Balantak Utara District, road from
Pangkalaseang to Ondoliang, disturbed forest on steep slope, limestone soil, 00°44.262’S,
123°24.262’E, 219 m elevation. 8 October 2017.
Calamus koordersianus Beccari
Stems solitary, 30 m long, 6 cm diameter. Sheaths with numerous, short spines; flagella present;
petioles 40 cm long; rachises 120 cm long; pinnae 65 per side of rachis, regularly arranged, with
long spinules on two, lateral veins adaxially and main vein abaxially. Sterile plant.
A. Henderson & Moh. Iqbal 4262
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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