Daemonorops monticola (Griff.) Mart.

Clustering rather short rattan forming loose thickets. Stems to 5 m tall, without sheaths to 20 mm diam., with sheaths to 3.5 cm diam., internodes to 20 cm. Leaves cirrate; sheaths pale green, armed with oblique whorls of black spines to 2.5 x 0.4 cm and abundant pale brown indumentum; knee poorly developed; ocrea absent; flagellum absent; petiole to 60 cm long, deeply channelled, armed with oblique whorls of spines as on the leaf sheath; rachis to 175 cm long; cirrus to 75 cm long; leaflets c. 60 on each side of the rachis, regularly arranged, close, linear, the longest to 40 x 1.5 cm, armed with bristles adaxially on 3 nerves, along the margins and abaxially along the mid-nerve only. Inflorescences tending to be crowded towards the stem tip, the stems probably not strictly hapaxanthic but possibly short-lived, erect, ± sessile, the male and female superficially similar, but the male branched to 3 orders and the female to 2 orders, the whole inflorescence to c. 40 cm long, usually less, 15 cm wide; prophyll boat-shaped with a beak to 10 cm long, and very densely armed with fine grey-black spines to 30 mm long and dense chocolate-coloured indumentum, enclosing the entire inflorescence with all its bracts, the prophyll splitting at anthesis but bract tips usually remaining captured within the tip of the prophyll; rachillae very densely crowded, male to 1 x 0.1 cm, female to 4 x 0.3 cm. Mature fruit rounded, c. 1.8 cm diam., with a short beak to 1.5 x 1.5 mm, and covered in 15 vertical rows of cinnamon brown, channelled scales with darker margins. Seed rounded, c. 1.3 cm diam.; endosperm deeply ruminate. Seedling leaf not known.