Calamus

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road near Tambing Lake, undisturbed forest on
steep slope, 01o19.293’S, 120°18.033’E, 1645 m elevation. 15 November 2017.
Calamus sp.
Stems 25 m long, 3.3 cm diameter. Sheaths green with numerous, needle-like, horizontal, brown
spines; knees without spines; ocreas fringed; petioles 21 cm long; rachises 172 cm long; pinnae
44 per side of rachis, regularly arranged and spreading in the same plane, the distal ones reduced
or vestigial; cirri with regularly arranged groups of spines. Inflorescences staminate, inserted
well below knee, 123 cm long, ending in a short stub; rachis bracts ‘palustris-like’.
A. Henderson, Sahlan & Semuel Torokano 4324
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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