Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Climber
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Calamus monoecus Roxb. |
| synonym | Calamus roxburghii Griff. |
| synonym | Calamus scipionum Lam., nom. illeg. |
| synonym | Draco rotang Crantz |
| synonym | Palmijuncus monoecus (Roxb.) Kuntze |
| synonym | Rotang linnaei Baill. |
| synonym | Rotanga calamus Crantz |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Clustering canes, stem to 10 m long, with sheaths to 1.3 cm in diameter, without sheaths to 1 cm, internodes to 45 cm long. Leaf to 80 cm, ecirrate; sheath green, spiny, spines to 1 cm long, needle-like, yellow; knee prominent; flagellum to 2.5 m long; petiole absent; rachis spiny; spines to 1 cm long, yellow with black tip; leaflets 35 x 2 cm, regular, long acuminate, tip armed with bristles, margins spinulose, median vein ciliate beneath from centre upwards. Inflorescence to 3 cm long; primary sheath closely sheathing, armed with minute spines; partial inflorescences 4-5, to 70 cm long; secondary sheaths 2.5 cm long, tapering at the base and expanding into a cup at the upper region; male rachillae to 3 cm long, recurved, female rachillae to 8 cm long. Involucrophorum not stalked; involucre cup shaped. Fruit ovoid, scales in 21 rows, straw yellow; faintly channeled along the middle, endosperm not smooth.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
In sacred groves near coastal regions and backwaters
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, Alappuzha
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=397
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=397 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Calamus rotang L., Sp. Pl. 325. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 447. 1892; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1568(1094). 1931; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 427. 1984; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 405. 1995; Renuka, Palms Kerala 31. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 519. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 714. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=397
Information Listing > References
- Calamus rotang L., Sp. Pl. 325. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 447. 1892; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1568(1094). 1931; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 427. 1984; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 405. 1995; Renuka, Palms Kerala 31. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 519. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 714. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=397
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Arecales |
| Family | Arecaceae |
| Genus | Calamus |
| Species | Calamus rotang L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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