Calamus gibbsianus (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction
List of species


Calamus gibbsianus Becc.


Family: Palmae

Vernacular names

  • Malaysia: silausilau (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo; confined to montane forest on Mount Kinabalu; elsewhere known only from one collection from the Kelabit Highlands in Sarawak.

Uses

The canes are used locally for general tying and weaving.

Observations

Slender clustering rattan. Stem to 8 m long. Stem without leafsheaths 410 mm in diameter, with sheaths 630 mm in diameter; flagellate in climbing forms. C. gibbsianus is only found in montane forest at 14003000 m altitude.

Selected sources

4, 18.

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