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Calamus shendurunii
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Family:
ARECACEAE/PALMAE
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Citation: Calamus shendurunii Anto, Renuka & Sreek., Rheedea 11: 37. 2001.
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Description:
Clustering, medium sized rattans stem reaching to 20 m, with sheaths up to 2 cm diameter, without sheaths up to 1.5 cm diameter, internodes up to 25 cm long. leavesecirrate, to 1 m long; sheath dark green, shining, spiny; spines very few, 1-4, scattered, with bulbous base, tip black, 1 cm long; knee conspicuous, devoid of spines; flagellum up to 2 m long; petiole ca. 25 cm long, armed on the dorsal side; rachis channeled on the dorsal side, ridges spiny, armed on the ventral side with recurved spines; spines 1 cm long, sturdy, bulbous based; leaflets long acuminate, regular, 35 x 3 cm; mid vein setose ventrally, setae up to 1 cm long, lateral and mid veins setose dorsally towards the tip, setae up to 0.5 cm long, apical leaflets basally united. Inflorescence flagellate, 2 m long, partial inflorescence 3-4, up to 20 cm long, slender; primary sheaths closely sheathing, mouth of the sheath with bristles, secondary sheath sparingly spiny; rachillae to 5 cm long. Fruit globose or obpyriform, 1 x 1.8 cm, stalk to 2 mm long, the pedicel of the neuter flower persistent, represented by a small projecting tubercle, scales in 25 vertical rows, pale green, without any border, shiny, shallowly channelled along the middle; endosperm ruminate.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Creamy, Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-300
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