Calamus didymocarpus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calamus didymocarpus Warb. ex Becc.

Family: Palmae

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: nue waatang, tohiti siombo (central Sulawesi), lauro sura (southern Sulawesi).

Distribution

Widespread in Sulawesi.

Uses

The cane is inferior but sold locally for making furniture.

Observations

Solitarygrowing rattan. Stem to 15 m long, without leafsheaths to 30 mm in diameter, with sheaths to 44 mm in diameter. Leaves cirrate, to 4 m long; cirrus to 2 m long. The bracts of the partial inflorescences spiny, unlike other species related to C. minahassae Becc. Found in lowland forests, near streams, on clay soils, up to 1100 m altitude.

Selected sources

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