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Calamus longisetus

Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Climber
Native range
Assam to Pen. Malaysia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Calamus longisetus is a rattan liana in the family Arecaceae endemic to the rainforests of the Andaman Islands south of Burma. It is noteworthy for the extreme length of its flagella (spiney, tendril-like extensions of the frond's rachis used in climbing into the forest canopy). According to Henderson, these flagella can be up to 13 m (43 ft) long.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calamus longisetus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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