Calamus divergens A.J.Hend., Pitopang & Moh.Iqbal

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: road between Tolitoli and Tinobagan, just before Kinapasan
Village, disturbed area near road, 00°49.165’N, 120°46.652’E, 66 m elevation. 29 October 2017.
Calamus sp.
Stems 6 m long, 3 cm diameter. Sheaths green with upward-pointing, black spines, those at
sheath apex markedly longer (apparently a pair of longer spines); knees almost absent; petioles
33 cm long; rachises 64 cm long; pinnae 8-9 per side, elliptic, not spinulose on veins, with
numerous vestigial spinules abaxially, in groups (pairs) and spreading in different planes; the
apical ones not reduced; cirri with more or less irregular spines but on some leaves appearing
regular. Inflorescences staminate, 93 cm long; rachis bracts tubular but almost ‘palustris-like’.
A. Henderson, Moh. Iqbal & Roland Putra Pribadi Ahmad 4315
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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