Calamus reyesianus (PROSEA)
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Calamus reyesianus Becc.
- Family: Palmae
Vernacular names
- Philippines: apas, lukuan, samulid (Tagalog).
Distribution
The Philippines (Laguna, Tayabas, Quezon).
Uses
The cane is used for furniture and baskets for home industry, local and international commercial use. The canes are of good quality, but the diameter is smaller than those of C. merrillii Becc.
Observations
Stem without leafsheaths to 18 mm in diameter, with sheaths to 30 mm in diameter. Leaves cirrate; leafsheaths densely armed with solitary, narrowlylinear spines; leaflets in pairs on each side of the rachis, ellipticallanceolate. Fruit spherical, to 1.5 cm in diameter, strawcoloured, oneseeded. Endemic to the Philippines and found in forest at low and medium altitudes.
Selected sources
2, 3, 8, 11, 22, 23, 26, 38, 39, 45, 48.
