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Classification
Daemonorops sabut Becc. in Hook.f.
Nomenclature
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Genus: Daemonorops
SUMMARY
Clustering moderate-sized rattan. Stems climbing to 40 m long, without sheaths c. 1.5 cm diam., with sheaths to 3 cm diam., internodes to 15 cm long. Leaf cirrate; sheaths bright green, bearing complete and partial pale coloured collars to 10 mm, 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; knee conspicuous, usually less heavily armed than the sheath; ocrea absent; petiole to 40 cm, armed near the base with low collars bearing black spines, distally with scattered or grouped triangular spines; rachis 1.1 m long; cirrus to 1 m long; leaflets very variable in arrangement, to c. 20 on each side of the rachis, rarely subregular, usually grouped in threes to sixes, the basal 2 groups being congested and the leaflets pointing in several directions, the longest usually the most basal, to 40 x 2.5 cm, unarmed except for short marginal bristles. 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 5 x 0.2 cm. Mature fruit ovoid, very shortly beaked, c. 1.6 x 1.2 cm, rarely spherical, covered with 14–17 vertical rows of yellowish-brown scales. Seed c. 1.2 x 0.9 cm; endosperm deeply ruminate. Seedling leaf with divergent leaflets.