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Calamus aruensis

Botanic Family

Arecaceae

Author

Beccari

Common Names

• NEW GUINEA: akalane (Namasalang)
• apo gui (Wamesa)
• bu (Madang)
• busep (Jal)
• dou (Waigeo)
• kanda (Pidgin)
• kaunor (Waigeo)
• kerowa (Karimui)
• kou (Senderawoi)
• kuminang (Kote)
• meya senga (Nuni)
• minge (Bembi)
• mumuni (Orokaiva)
• proway (Berap)
• sate (Rawa)
• sauwe (Mata)
• sehp (Usino)
• sough (Taka)
• tek niali (Mianmin)
• to mur (Ayawasi)
• to puot (Ayawasi)
• tub (Yei)
• wap (Wampar)
• wampwang (Kaigorin)
• war (Fas)
• wil dow (Batanta
• Salawati)
• yapl (Bewani). SOLOMON ISLANDS: haikeletau (Kwaraae)
• kalitau (Kwaraae)
• karakara
• obai
• pata
• potonai
• tikulu (Bougainville).

Geographical Habitats

• N. Queensland - Australia
• Maluku - Indonesia
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• primary & seconary forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Climbing palm to 50m. Cirrate leaf, cirrus to 5m, leaves to 3m long with spines to 26mm x 7mm, longest leaflet to 660mm x 125mm. Staminate inflorescence to 2.7m with bracts to 33mm x 19mm, rachillae to 33mm x 1.2mm, flowers to 3.2mm x 1.5mm with calyx to 1.5mm diameter, lobes to 0.5mm x 1mm, corolla to 3mm x 1.5mm. Pistillate inflorescence similar with bracts to 32mm x 20mm, flowers to 2.7mm x 2.2mm , calyx to 2.2mm diameter, lobes to 0.6mm x 1.3mm, corolla to 2.3mm x 1.6mm, lobes to 1.2mm x 1.3mm. Beaked fruit to 14mm x 11.5mm.

Cordage, bridge-building, tying house-timbers, furniture, eel traps, leaves for wrapping sago, house-walls, shoots edible

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• Kew
• Palmweb