Calamus boniensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calamus boniensis Becc. ex Heyne

Family: Palmae

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: tomani (southern Sulawesi).

Distribution

Sulawesi (southern).

Uses

Probably sold together with other smalldiameter rattans in the area such as rotan runti ( C. leptostachys Becc. ex Heyne) or rotan jermasi ( C. leiocaulis Becc. ex Heyne), or with both.

Observations

Incompletely known rattan. Heyne reported that the cane is 58 mm in diameter based on collection number 21/573/II in the Ethnobotanical MuseumHerbarium Bogoriense. Only a minimal description has been published so far.

Selected sources

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