Calamus viminalis Willd., Sp. Pl. 2: 203 1799. (syn: Calamus extensus Mart. [Illegitimate]; Calamus fasciculatus Roxb.; Calamus litoralis Blume; Calamus pseudorotang Mart. ex Kunth; Calamus viminalis var. andamanicus Becc.; Calamus viminalis var. bengalensis Becc.; Calamus viminalis var. cochinchinensis Becc.; Calamus viminalis var. fasciculatus (Roxb.) Becc.; Palmijuncus fasciculatus (Roxb.) Kuntze; Palmijuncus litoralis (Blume) Kuntze; Palmijuncus pseudorotang (Mart. ex Kunth) Kuntze; Palmijuncus viminalis (Willd.) Kuntze; Rotang viminalis (Willd.) Baill.);

 

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Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. t. 203 ; var. FASCICULATUS, Becc. ; stem rather stout, leaflets many inequidistant or fascicled 3-costate, margins and costas beneath spinulose, floccose rachis and petiole with scattered long straight spines, sheath and flagelli with scattered short hooked spines, spadix very long clothed with long spathes, tip flagelliferous, branches paniculate, spikes 4-5 in., lower spathes compressed with subulate spines, upper prickly, fruit small globose beaked. C. fasciculatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 779 (excl. cit. Rheede) ; Kunth Enum. iii. 208 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 338, t. 116, f. iv. ; Walp. Ann. 488, v. 831 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 52 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 62, t. 195 B (excl. A. Roxburghii), t. 190 A, f. ii. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 127 ; Palm. Archip. Ind. 27 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 210, t. 27 B ; For. Fl. ii. 517. C. extensus, Mart. l. c. iii. 210, Ed. 1, partly, t. 116, f. iv. 1 (reduced in Ed. 2 to fasciculatus). C. Pseudo-Rotang, Mart. l. c. 209, Ed. 1, t. 116, f. vi. (reduced in Ed. 2 to fasciculatus) ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 42 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 53 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 207.— Wall. Cat. 8608, 8611.  

LOWER BENGAL, ORISSA, and the CARNATIC, CHITTAGONG, BURMA, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS and PENANG, Wall.—DISTRIB. Cochin China. (Of the type Malay Islands.)  

A stout scrambling and climbing species. Leaves 2-3 ft. ; leaflets 4-10 by 2/3-3/4 in., pale green, young and rachis and sheath white-floccose, petiole short and rachis very stout, spines slender 1/2-1.1/4 in. long, pale hardly flattened. Spathes coriaceous, mouth obliquely truncate ; flagelli with hooked 2-3-fld claws. Spadix and its spreading branches rather stout, internodes (and truncate spathels) 1/2-3/4 in. Fruit 1/3-1/2 in. diam. ; scales pale yellow, obscurely channelled down the middle.  

(From The Flora of British India (1894) from IBIS Flora)

 

 

 Palm Tree For ID : Lalbagh,Bangalore : 05DEC14 : AK-17 : 12 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (12)

Another short palm seen in Lalbagh on 8/11/14.

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palm with thorns like eyelashes and bamboo like leaves

c'ant be anything but Rattan---  and if allowed to grow it would be the giant rattan i think

Plectocomia elongata most likely

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To me it seems to be some species of Calamus.

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so now we wait for an expert

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Calamus viminalis Willd.

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