Calamus hollrungii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calamus hollrungii Becc.

Family: Palmae

Distribution

New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Queensland (Australia).

Uses

Excellent mediumto largediameter cane, much collected for furniture manufacture. The potential of C. hollrungii for cultivation is worth investigating.

Observations

Robust, usually singlestemmed rattan. Stem without leafsheaths 920 mm in diameter, with sheaths 2040 mm in diameter. Leafsheaths sparsely armed with short spines; petiole densely spiny on upper surface. Fruit rounded, 812 mm in diameter. C. hollrungii occurs in lowland rain forest, and is closely related to C. subinermis Becc. and C. aruensis Becc.

Selected sources

4, 30, 31.