Calamus microsphaerion (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Calamus microsphaerion Becc.
- Family: Palmae
Vernacular names
- Philippines: kulakling, labit (Tagalog).
Distribution
The Philippines (Palawan, Bataan, Culion Philippines) and Sabah.
Uses
Unsplit slender canes are made into baskets.
Observations
Slender rattan. Stem without leafsheaths to 8 mm in diameter, with sheaths to 15 mm in diameter. Leaves cirrate; leafsheaths unarmed; leaflets grouped in twos to fours, narrowly lanceolate. Fruit very small, spherical with short beak. In primary forest at low altitude.
Selected sources
2, 3, 8, 11, 22, 23, 26, 39, 48.
