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Rattan palms
Calamus
Calamus is a genus of the palm family Arecaceae. These are among several genera known as rattan palms. There are an estimated 400 species in this genus, all native to tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. They are mostly leaf-climbing lianas with slender, reedy stems. To aid scrambling some species have evolved hooks on the underside of the midrib, or more commonly by modified "pinnae" or tendrils in the form of stout, backward-pointing spines. These...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Yellow Rotang Palm
speciesCalamus formosanus
Wait-a-while
speciesCalamus muelleri
Hairy Mary
speciesCalamus australis
large lawyer cane
speciesCalamus moti
Yellow rattan palm
speciesCalamus melanochaetes
fishtail lawyer vine
speciesCalamus caryotoides
Four-finger Rattan Palm
speciesCalamus tetradactylus
Calamus thysanolepis
speciesCalamus thysanolepis
Calamus beccarii
speciesCalamus beccarii
Calamus siphonospathus
speciesCalamus siphonospathus
Calamus radicalis
speciesCalamus radicalis
Common Rattan
speciesCalamus rotang
Calamus jenkinsianus
speciesCalamus jenkinsianus
Calamus walkeri
speciesCalamus walkeri
Calamus rhabdocladus
speciesCalamus rhabdocladus
Solitary lawyer vine
speciesCalamus vitiensis
Calamus thwaitesii
speciesCalamus thwaitesii
Osier-like rattan palm
speciesCalamus viminalis
Calamus erinaceus
speciesCalamus erinaceus
Calamus rheedei
speciesCalamus rheedei
Calamus pseudotenuis
speciesCalamus pseudotenuis
Calamus siamensis
speciesCalamus siamensis
Calamus crinitus
speciesCalamus crinitus
Calamus tenuis
speciesCalamus tenuis
Calamus digitatus
speciesCalamus digitatus
Calamus castaneus
speciesCalamus castaneus
Calamus poilanei
speciesCalamus poilanei
tynriew
speciesCalamus erectus
Calamus javensis
speciesCalamus javensis
Calamus aruensis
speciesCalamus aruensis
Calamus deerratus
speciesCalamus deerratus
Calamus ovoideus
speciesCalamus ovoideus
Calamus calapparius
speciesCalamus calapparius
Calamus lobbianus
speciesCalamus lobbianus
Calamus exilis
speciesCalamus exilis
Calamus insignis
speciesCalamus insignis
Claudie River lawyer vine
speciesCalamus warburgii
Calamus gracilipes
speciesCalamus gracilipes
Calamus gibbsianus
speciesCalamus gibbsianus
Calamus caesius
speciesCalamus caesius
Manan rattan palm
speciesCalamus manan
Calamus laevigatus
speciesCalamus laevigatus
Calamus papuanus
speciesCalamus papuanus
Calamus diepenhorstii
speciesCalamus diepenhorstii
Calamus merrillii
speciesCalamus merrillii
Calamus paspalanthus
speciesCalamus paspalanthus
Calamus pycnocarpus
speciesCalamus pycnocarpus
Calamus acanthospathus
speciesCalamus acanthospathus
Calamus latifolius
speciesCalamus latifolius
Calamus geniculatus
speciesCalamus geniculatus
Calamus zollingeri
speciesCalamus zollingeri
Calamus altiscandens
speciesCalamus altiscandens
Calamus zeylanicus
speciesCalamus zeylanicus
Calamus batanensis
speciesCalamus batanensis
Calamus inermis
speciesCalamus inermis
Calamus moseleyanus
speciesCalamus moseleyanus
Long-spiny-flagella rattan palm
speciesCalamus ornatus
Calamus reinwardtii
speciesCalamus reinwardtii
Calamus pseudozebrinus
speciesCalamus pseudozebrinus
Calamus draco
speciesCalamus draco
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.133
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.106
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.105
Herbarius
1485 · p.106
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.103
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.91
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.92
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.105
Garden of Health
1507 · p.10
Garden of Health
1507 · p.74
Garden of Health
1507 · p.74
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.121
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Calamus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 128986.