Calamus kandariensis Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Sigi Regency, near Lawua, just above Haluapu River, Lore Lindu
National Park, forest on steep slope near river, 0r36.574’S, 120°03.827’E, 471 m elevation, 2
December 2017.
Calamus sp.
Stems solitary, 20 m long, 3.5 cm diameter. Sheaths brown tomentose initially, becoming green
with solitary, scattered, black, horizontal, swollen-based spines; petioles 7 cm long; rachises 118
cm long; pinnae 9 per side of rachis, arranged in divergent pairs, without any spinules on veins;
distal pinnae reduced but not vestigial; cirri spines more or less irregular. Inflorescences 259 cm
long; rachis bracts covered with short, swollen-based spines; fruits ellipsoid, orange-brown.
A. Henderson, Moh. Iqbal, Fedrik Stanlee Lakiu & Anita 4375
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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