Daemonorops kunstleri Becc. in Hook.f.

Clustering, moderate-sized acaulescent to short-climbing rattan. Stems often very short, sometimes climbing to 5 m, without sheaths to 3.5 cm diam., with sheaths to 5.5 cm diam., internodes 5–10 cm long. Leaves cirrate or, very rarely in acaulescent forms, ecirrate; sheaths dull brownish green, densely covered with reddish brown or dull dark brown indumentum and armed with dark brown to blackish spines to 4 cm long, erect or reflexed, arranged in oblique or horizonal partial whorls, the larger spines often interspersed with smaller spines, spines around the leaf sheath mouth erect and much larger than other spines, to 6 cm long; knee absent in non-climbing forms; ocrea absent; petiole up to 1 m long, much less in climbing forms, armed with lateral spines 0.6–2 cm long; rachis to 2 m long, usually less; cirrus very short (rarely absent) or to 1 m long; leaflets to c. 65 on each side of the rachis, regularly arranged, rather close, the longest to 50 x 2.5 cm, armed adaxially with brown bristles on 3 nerves, abaxially only on midrib. Inflorescences male and female superficially similar, the male branched to 3 orders, the female to 2 orders, borne on a conspicuous peduncle to 50–80 cm or more long in short stemmed forms, much less in climbing forms, the peduncle armed with abundant short grouped spines to 4 mm long; prophyll and up to 7 peduncular bracts armed with grouped short spines, the bracts splitting longitudinally and all falling except for the prophyll that persists; male rachillae to 5.3 x 0.2 cm, the female to 1.2 x 0.4 cm. Mature fruit rounded, c. 1.8 cm diam., with a short beak to 0.15 cm long, and covered in 15–18 vertical rows of rich brown channelled scales with slightly darker margins. Seed rounded c. 1.2 cm diam.; endosperm deeply ruminate. Seedling leaf with 4–6 leaflets.