Daemonorops rubra (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Daemonorops rubra (Reinw. ex Bl.) Bl.

Family: Palmae

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: teretes (western Java).

Distribution

Western Java.

Uses

The fruit produces "dragon's blood"natural dye.

Observations

Clustering rattan. Stem to 10 m long, without leafsheaths 12 mm in diameter, with sheaths to 30 mm in diameter. Leaves cirrate, 3 m long including the 1 m long cirrus. Found in lowland primary dipterocarp forest, up to 800 m altitude.

Selected sources

1, 5.