Calamus rotang

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : L. Publication : Sp. Pl. 1: 325 1753 [1 May 1753]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calamus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. australis (Wait-A-While) · C. caesius (Calamus) · C. caryotoides (Fishtail Lawyer Cane) · C. ciliaris (Ciliate Rattan Palm) · C. deerratus (Calamus) · C. flabellatus (Fan-Shaped Rattan Palm) · C. javensis (Java Slender-Caned Rattan) · C. manan (Manan Rattan Palm) · C. melanoloma (Slender-Caned Rattan) · C. microcarpus (Philippines Small-Fruited Rattan) · C. moti (Yellow Lawyer Cane) · C. muelleri (Southern Lawyer Cane) · C. ornatus (Long-Spiny-Flagella Rattan Palm) · C. platyacanthos (Java Rattan) · C. platyacanthus (Chinese Rattan) · C. polystachys (Ant Rattan) · C. radicalis (Viscious Hairy Mary) · C. rotang (Rattan) · C. scipionum (Stick Rattan Palm) · C. simplicifolius (Hainan Province Rattan) · C. tetradactylus (White Rattan) · C. viminalis (Osier-Like Rattan Palm)

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• A manual of scientific terms, pronouncing, etymological, and explanatory, chiefly comprising terms in botany, natural history, anatomy, medicine, and veterinary science, with an appendix of specific names. Designed for the use of by Rev. James Stormonth Edinburgh, Maclachlan and Stewart, 1885 url p. 59.
• A naturalist in Brazil; the record of a year's observation of her flora, her fauna, and her people, by Konrad Guenther. .. translated by Bernard Miall. .. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. url p. 393.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2670663
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-29891
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13764213
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:665387-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 8378
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 506711
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 665387-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CARO32
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 26923

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