Calamus godefroyi Becc.

Species

Angiosperms > Arecales > Arecaceae > Calamus

Characteristics

A rattan. It can climb 30 m long. The stems are in clusters. They are 1.5 cm across. The leaf sheaths are green with brown hairs. It has spines 2 cm long that point upwards. The leaf shoot is 1 m long with 15-20 oval leaflets on each side. They are arranged regularly. The flowering shoots are 1.3 m long. The fruit are round or oval and 1.6 cm long and 1.2 cm wide. They are yellow or white.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 30.0
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. In Indochina it grows in marshy forest below 200 m altitude. It occurs along the Mekong.
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Edible shoots
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Distribution

Calamus godefroyi world distribution map, present in Lao People's Democratic Republic and Thailand

Conservation status

Calamus godefroyi threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:665108-1
WFO ID wfo-0000756063
COL ID 696TZ
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Synonyms

Calamus godefroyi