Calamus pseudomollis Becc.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PALMS OF SULAWESI
Indonesia. Sulawesi Tengah: Tolitoli Regency, Dondo District, road between Tinabogan and
Ogotua, disturbed area near road on steep slope, 00°47.599’N, 120°23.746’E, 33 m elevation. 30
October 2017.
Calamus pseudomollis Beccari
Stems clustered, 10 m long, 3.3 cm diameter. Sheaths densely covered with brown, needle-like
spines, these longer at sheath apex; flagella well-developed, the prophyll with a dense tuft of
erect, needle-like, wavy spines on one side; petioles 18 cm long; rachises 96 cm long; pinnae 52
per side of rachis, regularly arranged. Infructescences erect, 150 cm long; rachis bracts splitting
and tattering, with a dense tuft of erect, needle-like, wavy spines on one side; fruits ellipsoid,
white
A. Henderson, Moh. Iqbal & Roland Putra Pribadi Ahmad 4317
Fieldwork carried out in collaboration with Tadulako University and funded by a Fulbright
Scholar Award.