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Laccosperma opacum

Botanic Family

Arecaceae

Author

(Mann & Wendland) Drude

Common Names

• Rattan-palm

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated forest
• high forest
• coastal
• woodland

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Aug
• Dec

Liana, rattan with stems to 9m, leaves to 2.4m clothed with brownish tomentum with sheath 300mm long, 12mm spines along petiole & leaf margins, climbing or scrambling palm with very spiny leaf-sheaths, leaflets 300mm x 100mm in opposite clusters, spadix to 610mm long, flowers with calyx 4mm long & corolla 8mm long, red berry 12mm diameter

Used for drinks, water-sap, building materials, domestic items, stems sometimes used in binding

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew