Calamus posoanus

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road from Tentena to Bada, undisturbed forest on
steep slopes, 01°47.863’S, 120°29.455’E, 1136 m elevation. 22 October 2017.
Calamus sp.	rotan wana
Stems solitary, 25 m long, 1 cm diameter. Sheaths densely covered with horizontal, light brown
spines; petioles 13-17 cm long; rachises 72 cm long; pinnae 6 per side of rachis, broadly elliptic,
almost regularly arranged, the apical pair opposite, with no vestigial pinnae; cirri spines regularly
arranged. Sterile plant.
A. Henderson, Sahlan & Jimmy Golo 4293
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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