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

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PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road from Tentena to Pendolo, undisturbed forest,
02*01.907’S, 120°46.855’E, 711 m elevation. 23 November 2017.
Calamus sp.
tohiti
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?HIM
03696105
Stems solitary, 10 m long, 4.7 cm diameter. Sheaths green with brown tomentum, densely
covered with black, narrow, horizontal spines; ocreas well-developed but falling early; petioles 4
cm long; rachises 273 cm long; pinnae 44 per side of rachis, regularly arranged, pendulous, with
3 rows of spinules adaxially, without vestigial spinules abaxially; proximal pinnae reduced;
distal pinnae reduced; cirri spines regularly arranged, stout. Inflorescences staminate, branched
to 3 orders, 231 cm long; rachis bracts ‘palustris-like’ with long, narrow lobe.
A. Henderson, Roland Putra Pribadi Ahmad & Semuel Torokano 4352
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.