Daemonorops clemensiana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Daemonorops clemensiana Becc.

Family: Palmae

Distribution

The Philippines (Lanao, Mindanao).

Uses

The cane is used for basketmaking and tying.

Observations

Slender rattan. Stem without leafsheaths to 10 mm in diameter, with sheaths to 20 mm in diameter. Leaves to 1.3 m long, cirrate; leafsheaths densely armed with scattered black, stiff, flat spines; leaflets equidistant, numerous. Fruit spherical, to 2.5 mm in diameter, oneseeded. Endemic to the Philippines.

Selected sources

2, 3, 8, 11, 22, 23, 26, 38, 39, 45.