Calamus reyesianus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

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.