Calamus warburgii K.Schum.

Clustering climbing palm to 40 m tall; stems to 30 mm diam. Leaves cirrate, to 6.5 m long (including cirrus); leaf sheaths with dense needle-like yellowish green spines to 60 mm long, randomly arranged; petiole 5–7 cm long, spiny; rachis flat adaxially, spiny. Pinnae 40–100 each side of rachis, regularly arranged, narrowly lanceolate, to 45 cm long, to 22 mm wide, acuminate, papyraceous, dull midgreen adaxially, only slightly lighter abaxially, with midrib and 2 pairs of veins prominent. Staminate and pistillate inflorescences to 2 m long; lateral branches distichous, to 30 cm long, with clustered hooked spines. Staminate flower to 3 mm long. Pistillate flower to 5 mm long. Fruit globose, to 13 mm diam., white-cream.

A tropical plant. It is very frost sensitive. They need a well-drained soil. Seedlings need to be in the shade. In northern Australia it grows from sea level to 400 m altitude.

Plants are grown from seed. The seed germinate in 3-4 months. Seed need to be sown fresh. Seedlings are difficult to transplant.