Calamus

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Poso Regency, road from Tentena to Bada, undisturbed forest on
steep slopes, 01°47.776’S, 120°28.880’E, 1360 m elevation. 22 October 2017.
Stems 25 m long, 4 cm diameter. Sheaths gray-green with many, short, horizontal, green spines;
knees prominent, non-spiny; petioles 18-23 cm long; rachises 223 cm long; pinnae 32 per side of
rachis, linear (‘broken vein’), regularly arranged, pendulous, with 3 rows of spinules adaxially, 1
row abaxially; cirri spines perfectly regular. Inflorescences pistillate, inserted near knee, 140 cm
long; partial inflorescences subtended by ‘palustris-like’ bracts but these very short and
membranous. Endosperm ruminate.
Calamus sp.
rotan silaya
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
A. Henderson, Sahlan & Jimmy Golo 4291
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Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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