Calamus kandariensis Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Donggala Regency, road from Tawaeli to Toboli, Wentira,
disturbed forest on steep slope, 00°43.682’S, 119°59.203’E, 807 m elevation. 17 September
2017.
Calamus sp.	tohiti
Stems solitary, 4 m long, 1.8 cm diameter. Sheaths green with powdery, white tomentum and
scattered, short, straight spines; petioles 14 cm long; rachises 62 cm long; pinnae 11 per side of
rachis, irregularly arranged, elliptic; cirri with irregularly arranged spines.
4230 and 4231 growing next to each other and probably the same species; 4231 with narrower
pinnae
A. Henderson & Ramadhanil Pitopang 4231
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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