Daemonorops macrophylla
Clustering moderate-sized rattan. Stems climbing to 20 m long, without sheaths c. 1.5 cm diam., with sheaths to 3 cm diam., internodes 10–15 cm long. Leaf cirrate; sheaths bright green, bearing complete and partial green collars to 1 cm, tipped with black and brown horse-hair-like spines, 1–6 cm long, the longest tending to be paler in colour and all bearing abundant dark grey, caducous indumentum, at least some of the collars interlocking to produce ant galleries, indumentum utilised by ants for constructing vertical galleries; knee well developed, usually less heavily armed than the sheath and often partly obscured by the spines; petiole to 50 cm long, armed near the base with low collars bearing black spines, distally with scattered or grouped triangular spines; rachis to 50 cm long; cirrus to 1.25 m long; leaflets up to 10 on each side of the rachis, fewer in juveniles, irregularly arranged, the basalmost 2 very large and broad, to 60 x 10 cm, the distal leaflets narrow, to 50 x 2.5 cm, arranged in pairs or threes or fours, sparsely bristly along argins. Inflorescences pendulous, to 60 cm long, the male branching to 3 orders, the female to 2 orders; primary bracts densely armed with fine black spines, all except the prophyll quickly falling at anthesis, other bracts inconspicuous; male rachillae to 1.5 x 0.1 cm, female rachillae to 4.5 x 0.2 cm. Mature fruit ovoid, very shortly beaked, c. 2.1 x 1.5 cm, covered with 16–18 vertical rows of yellowish-brown, channelled scales. Seed c. 15. x 1.1 cm; endosperm deeply ruminate. Seedling leaf not known
Possibly extinct due to habitat destruction and over-exploitation of the canes.
Possibly not distinct from D. sabut.
Global — Peninsular Malaysia (type).
Thailand — PENINSULAR: Narathiwat
Valley bottoms in evergreen forest, to 700 m altitude.
Produces a good quality medium-sized cane.