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Calamus lacciferus
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Family:
ARECACEAE/PALMAE
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Citation: Calamus lacciferus Lakshmana & Renuka, JETB 14: 705. 1990; Renuka, Rattans W. Ghats 35.1992; Rangan et al., Rheedea 13: 78. 2003.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Pal-chooral
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Description:
High climbing, cluster forming rattans; stem thin 0.5-0.8 cm in diameter at base, getting thicker upwards, to 4 cm with sheath and up to 1.5 cm without sheath in diameter distally, basal nodes produce new shoots. Leaves to 2-2.5 m long, ecirrate; sheath green basely and grayish green distally, sparingly spiny, bulbous based spines 0.5-1 cm long; knee conspicuous, devoid of spines; petiole 30-40 cm long, armed with short spines, rachis with recurved spines beneath, excudes milky latex when cut; leaflets regular, linear lanceolate, 60 x 3 cm, tip ciliate, terminal leaflets 20 x 1.2 cm, slightly united at base, mid vein ciliated dorsally, lateral veins ciliated ventrally on the upper half. Inflorescence long, flagellate; primary sheaths tubular, inflated at mouth; rachillae up to 5-6 cm long, arched and recurved, upper ones gradually becoming shorter to 1 cm long, involucrophorum stalked; involucre disc shaped; fruiting perianth pedicellate. Fruits, globose, 2 cm in diameter; scales in 19 vertical rows, yellow with brown boarder, shiny, deeply channeled in the middle; endosperm ruminate.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-June
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District(s):
Malappuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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