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

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, near Wanga, forest on steep slope, 01°29.34rS,
120°19.234’E, 1204 m elevation. 18 November 2017.
Calamus sp.	tongisi
Stems solitary, 50 m long, 5.5 cm diameter. Sheaths densely brown tomentose, with scattered,
stout, solitary, triangular spines; ocreas fringed; petioles 9 cm long; rachises 230 cm long; pinnae
broad, elliptic, 25 per side of rachis, regularly arranged, leathery, without any spinules, with
numerous vestigial spinules all over abaxial surface; proximal pinnae reduced; distal pinnae
reduced and vestigial; cirri spines perfectly regularly arranged. Staminate inflorescence 244 cm
long, branched to 3 orders; rachis bracts ‘palustris-like’.
A. Henderson, Sahlan, Semuel Torokano & Martin Topanga 4343
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.