Daemonorops draco (Willd.) Blume

Clustering rattan. Stems climbing to 15 m long, usually less and sometimes very short, without sheaths c. 1.5 cm diam., with sheaths to 3 cm diam., internodes c. 15 cm long. Leaf cirrate; sheath bright green, bearing dark brown indumentum when young, armed with irregular groups of black spines to 2 cm long and also sparse groups of much smaller black spicules; ocrea absent; petiole to 30 cm long, armed laterally with groups of short spines to 0.6 m long; rachis to 1.1 m long; cirrus to 1 m long; leaflets c. 20 on each side of the rachis, ± regularly arranged, or regularly arranged near the base and somewhat irregularly distally, rather distant, linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, the longest to 40 x 2.5 cm, armed with long bristles on the main vein and 2 laterals on the under-surface, transverse veinlets minute but easily visible. Inflorescences pendulous, much shorter than the leaves, c. 45 cm long, male and female superficially similar, the male branched to 3 orders, the female to 2 orders with c. 3 partial inflorescences, bracts rather thick and woody, soon falling at anthesis; rachillae very short and congested, the male to 30 x 2 mm, the female 40–60 x 0.3 cm. Mature fruit ovoid, 2.8 x 2 cm, covered in 16 vertical rows of scales, heavily encrusted with red resin (dragon’s blood). Seed ± rounded, c. 1.5 x 1.3 cm; endosperm deeply ruminate.