Calamus microsphaerion (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

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.