I(D help - Pinanga perhaps

[John Eve]

Here I go again, with another palm that I now have shooting from seed, but don't know what it is.

This is a small clumping pinnate that grows to about 4 - 5 metres.  Leaves and trunks looks almost exactly like Pinanga sylvestris, though the seeds are completely different.  Sylvestris seeds are oblong, these are smaller and round, and come on a single  stem.

Again, there were taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Thanks for any help ....
John E, Hua Hin, Thailand.

[happypalms]

No idea at all but what a beautiful looking palm and you have seeds from it as well an even bigger bonus 

[realarch]

Looks like a Calyptrocalyx of some sort, not a Pinanga.

Tim

[John Eve]

Calyptrocalyx ???  Interesting.
However, this was growing quite close to another that was named as Pinanga Sylvestris, and I could not tell them apart - until I found seeds on each of them, and the seeds were entirely different.
So I guessed it might be a type of Pinanga - but that's only a guess.
John E

[Palmarum]

It is definitely a Calyptrocalyx species, with those unbranched inflorescences, the fibrous leaf bases and those distinctive internode rings on the stems. 

With those more finely divided leaves and alternating leaflets, I would guess C. forbesii. Also known under its old name C. stenoschista.

Ryan

[John Eve]

Many thanks ... after looking this up, it certainly does appear to be Calyptrocalyx forbesii ....

I have a couple more sets of seeds of unknown species  .. if these also put up spears I will be back in need of more help.
This now gives me 77 different species of palm for my collection..

Regards,
John E