Calamus

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
vnnK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Sigi Regency, Kulawi District, Toro Village, forest just east of
village on steep slope, 01°29.393’S, 120°01.994’E, 880 m elevation. 29 September 2017.
Calamus sp. (or Daemonorops)
lauro humoli
Stems clustered, 6 m long, 2 cm diameter. Sheaths densely spiny with downward-pointing
spines; ocreas well-developed, open above petiole, with no groove on petiole; petioles 16 cm
long; rachises 204 cm long; pinnae linear, 33 per side of rachis, regularly arranged, with
subterminal ‘broken vein’; cirri spines regularly arranged in clusters. Sterile plant.
A. Henderson, Ramadhanil Pitopang, Adhil, Said Tolao & Husein Tolao 4239
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.
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